Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks this week with President Johnson. But having just helped bail the British out of their financial crisis, Washington is not rushing to buy the Wilson plan-or to force the Germans to buy it. Speaking at Georgetown University last week, Johnson allowed as how "we shall never insist on unanimity" within the alliance, meaning that the U.S. and West Germany would very probably go ahead with MLF even if Britain and France stay...
...Southerner Lyndon Johnson solves the formidable problem of getting Democratic Southern Senators to approve two Southerners of the type the Fifth deserves, the trouble is that nine judges cannot handle the court's runaway caseload. There are two alternatives: add judges or cut the load. Because some experts insist that appellate courts should have no more than nine judges, Congress will shortly be asked to reduce the Fifth's jurisdiction by creating a new seven-judge circuit court to handle Texas, Louisiana and the Canal Zone...
...last two months fifty Harvard singers and musicians have been rehearsing Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte, an opera that people who know about music insist is too difficult for undergraduates to do. Last Saturday afternoon a small group of students, some of whom were still in grade school when the last grand opera was performed here, wandered down to Leverett House to find out what makes staging a grand opera so challenging...
...restage it," Nichols would say when they hit a foggy patch. "No, let me rewrite it," Simon would insist. Next month Simon and Nichols will be working together again, on Simon's new play The Odd Couple, which will star Art Carney and Walter Matthau. "It's about two guys who are having trouble with their wives," says Nichols. "You never see the wives; you just see the other girls, just like in real life...
Allen never quite found that place in the "emotional blackout" of Harvard, but Cambridge is a little happier after a week of his Whitmanic tenderness. The University would do well to allow its guests to set more ample, variable standards of behavior, rather than to insist upon the sometimes artificial protocol of "normal society...