Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfortunately, the effect of most of the best writing in the play is lost, because the actors, especially the men, insist one emoting their way through these passages. Instead, they should quiet down, and concentrate on what they are saying. What is called for is not visceral emotion, but rather intellectual feeling. These philosophical statements do not emanate from the character of the protagonists or from the action on the stage; they are impersonal truths that Shaw wished to have read into the record...
...private family talk, it went unreported until the Miscellany News poll caught the eager attention of the New York Herald Tribune. Last week the Trib, with other papers falling in line, played the story big, in recognition of the fact that women's-college presidents who dare to insist on old-fashioned chastity for their girls are fairly rare nowadays. Having won cheers from almost every Vassar parent, Miss Blanding was undaunted. Said she: "The girls wanted to know what the standards were. I told them...
...that, he is still close to the top of the Hollywood heap. His record company grossed $4,600,000 last year, and the range of movie roles that await him is broad and reassuring. His friends insist that there is no new Sinatra, that the new innocent abroad is only the old Sinatra with the old resentments stripped away. And overseas, the tour's inspiration matters less than the good it does...
Sullivan may insist that Harvard pay at least partial taxes on the married student apartment complex it plans to build on the Charles River below Dunster House...
...telephone researchers insist that over the short time it takes between looking up a number and dialing it, ANC's seven-digit numbers are just as easy to recall as those with two letters and five numbers. They admit, however, that permanently memorizing All-Number numbers takes a little more effort. An officially recommended procedure is to group the numbers into two parts, such as 571 (pause...