Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those readers who insist upon filing contemporary writers to the pigeonhole of a convenient tradition will have no difficulty in detecting the intellectual habits of the school of Donne in such poems as "The Value of Gold." To expand categories slightly, Mr. Gunn's whole milieu resembles that early-seventeenth-century world of religious nightmare, alchemical daydream, and academic short-circuit, in which an inherited logic grinned at itself and morbidity became bumptious. In one of the 1954 poems, "A Mirror for Poets," Mr. Gunn described that age, so obviously like our own as to make the comparison banal...
...called "Sleeping Giant of Texas Politics," the Latin American vote. It has also just completed one of the most successful polltax drives in recent memory. And it will probably add great vigor to the liberal effort in the 1962 elections. Despite its definite liberal orientation, however, it continues to insist that it is "trying to build a Democratic Party without prefix or suffix...
...unfortunate," said the lay weekly Commonweal, "that Catholic churchmen should insist this year on casting themselves in the same unhappy role they took in 1961. Emotional descriptions of the President's bill as a threat, a crime,* an attack which means the end of the parochial school system are misleading and exaggerated, and likely to do much harm. Instead of allaying religious antagonisms and misunderstandings, such violent pronouncements will reinforce the image of the church as nothing more than another power bloc [and] delay by years the development of interreligious understanding which would permit the amicable solution...
...explain the play, and emphasized that his writing is intended for children because they assess life in moral terms. Children, Feiffer said, want to know if killing is bad, but adults will only answer in terms of political circumstance. Children will ask if love is good, and adults will insist that they define their terms. Children will regard good as good and bad as bad, but adults know that bad is good when We do it (because They have forced it upon us), and good is bad when They do it (because they're trying to weaken Our defense posture...
...answer to a question from the audience, Thomas stated that if he were President--"which my follow countrymen with astounding unamity have seen fit to prevent"--he would announce unilaterally that the United States would not test any more nuclear weapons but instead would insist on inspection as part of a disarmament agreement...