Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing you cannot do is think, i.e., to build on your private definition of the world, and so to enjoy what Thomas Mann called the 'wealth of the mind'-that which makes a writer feel that he has a world in his hand ... I insist that in present terms, the theater of perversion, of 'sexual frankness,' of open violence, moves us farther away from the authentic things we want and have got to say. Imagination may on occasion be forced; it can never be simulated. And the fuel of imagination, right now, can only...
Other psychiatrists do not agree with Du Font's hard-headed approach, insist on traditional psychiatric methods that take longer and treat a worker's psyche more carefully. In fact, the whole young field of industrial psychiatry is as rife with conflict as are the minds of its patients. One big problem, points out IBM Medical Director Dr. John Duffy, is that "there is no statistical yardstick" to measure the results of mental health programs, "since we aren't buying merchandise." Some businessmen still cling to the old idea that the worker's personal problems...
...underdeveloped nations. Both the U.S. and Britain feel that this would pervert and weaken Western aid programs. And De Gaulle's dream of a ban on arms shipments to such troubled areas as Africa is frowned on by the U.S., which argues that proud new nations will insist on getting defensive armaments somewhere-and it might as well be from the West...
...struck down by some unexplained flaw of character or of fate. The scientific promise of food and health has obviously not been able to save them, and Snow evades that dilemma. The poor boy who found his way through the corridors of power still finds it more pertinent to insist, with old-fashioned and unabashed optimism, that "industrialisation is the only hope of the poor...
...majors deny any collusion in setting gasoline prices, insist that prices are uniform only because they all have access to the same sources of crude, pay roughly the same costs to get oil from the well to the pump. But there are few successful challengers to their dominant price-holding role. Independents occasionally force the majors to lower gasoline prices at the pump, as they did recently in West Germany. But they do not have the world wide refining and marketing facilities for a heavy offensive, often cannot offer customers a sustained flow of oil at the same price...