Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Teachers at such institutions as Columbia may insist that discussions are better than lectures, but they assume that all discussions will be as good as the best ones. This cannot a bad discussion is probably worse than a bad lecture, for one cannot good book in a bad section meeting (his) attendance is often punitive quizzes...
...faculty has never relinquished its grasp on university government. Although never responsible for raising a university's funds, the faculty has never abdicated its right to spend the money. At a time when intellectuals magniloquently cry out for "excellence," faculties in American universities still insist upon a mediocre chief. Professors want their president to walk the line, to mind the store without interfering with their business...
...Salan verdict inspired the attorneys of his condemned deputy, ex-General Jouhaud, to appeal for a new trial. While the French Supreme Court took the matter under advisement, Jouhaud was granted a stay of execution. But there were suggestions that the angry De Gaulle might still insist on his death. The government promptly began using Jouhaud's fate as a political weapon to try to subdue the S.A.O. His life, French authorities hinted broadly, depended on the S.A.O. terrorists' immediately easing up on their attacks against Moslems in Algeria. At week's end, the S.A.O. seemed...
...Kennedy forces, who insist their support is not limited to Harvard, have fairly sparse backing here. Samuel H. Beer, professor of Government and member of the Faculty of Public Administration; John N. Plank '45, assistant professor of Government; and "several others, particularly in the political science and economics departments," appear to be the extent of his sympathizers...
...enthusiasm for the Bill, the President is in the great tradition of the Anti-Corn Law League, granddaddy of all Free Trade movements; its members used to insist that there were passages in the Bible which forecast the advent of Free Trade. (This passage, from Exodus, was especially popular: "Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt; get you down thither, and buy for us from them, that we may live...