Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pied-noir of Corsican descent. His ideas are frankly fascist ("Why don't we come out and say so?") but, publicly at least, they are devoid of racial overtones?largely because the 130,000 Jews of Algeria are pro Algérie Française, and because S.A.O. propaganda has to insist, preposterous though the claim is, that the majority of Moslems love the S.A.O. better than the F.L.N. Susini, the young doctrinaire, and Salan, the old politician-general, have become close friends. He listens intently to Susini's urgings that France needs a regime like Generalissimo Franco's in Spain, "only...
Although he thinks "some very good twelve-tone music has been written," he deplores the "sycophants" who insist on it. Some of his other opinions are equally unfashionable: there is no reason, says Harris, why symphonic music should not try to express specific, literal themes. Now that he has finally put St. Francis on paper, he plans to finish a symphony on Walt Whitman and an oratorio on the life of Christ...
...capitalist countries. Asked to suggest ways to "liquidate the remnants of woman's inferior position in the home.'' a 27-year-old Moscow engineer protested that modern wives are no longer inferior. They make their husbands take the children to school and do the shopping, insist on eating in restaurants, send most of the laundry out and leave the rest "unwashed and unironed until there is nothing left to wear." Said he: "It will soon be a question of 'emancipating' men, not women...
...that the triumph of the congenital theory has invalidated the hypothesis that Communism is a contagious disease, spread by certain strong carriers like Che Guevara in countries with weak Constitutions. This development makes the solution of the problem surgical, rather than diplomatic. Nothing remains but for the U.S. to insist upon, not merely advocate, hemispheric support of a blocked or another invasion. By its very existence, the Alliance for Progress suggests a convenient instrument with which to pry hesitant neighbors into compliance...
...draft looked toward a federal Congo with a strong central government, Tshombe was against it from the start; at his meeting with Adoula, he reluctantly agreed to accept its provisions, but now (on the ground that his own provincial Parliament in Katanga had still to ratify his agreement) he insisted that the delegates would try again to get the provisional constitution changed. Said he: "We still insist on a confederation...