Word: insist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What these modern playwrights aim for is not to convey actions, messages or answers but states of being and feeling. Some playgoers insist that they hate and cannot comprehend these modern plays. The playwrights counter that this hate is what Oscar Wilde described as "the rage of Caliban at seeing his own face." No doubt, they are reporting as honestly as they know how on a moral wasteland. But it is a selected part of the terrain of life, and selection implies exclusion...
...London's docks, a forklift and three men can accomplish as much work as a 14-man gang once did; dockworkers have accepted forklifts, but still insist that the 14-man gang follow each truck around...
Pressures: Easing. Businessmen seek ing credit to buy other companies, spec ulate in real estate or build up inven tories are having a tough time. Few lenders anywhere seem willing to take on new corporate customers, and many now insist that companies keep hefty cash balances on deposit if they want credit. It is getting harder to keep those deposits up. Last week corporations made their quarterly income tax payments, and because of the speedup in collections this year, the bill came to $8.7 billion, nearly 17% more than last year. Partly to pay their taxes, and partly to finance...
...concepts. Superficially it appears that Harvard students are simultaneously asking for more independence and more "spoon feeding." Yet these two requests are perhaps not as contradictory as they first appear, and both are a reflection of our approach to education. Perhaps what they are saying is this: If you insist on surveying every facet of medical knowledge, please give us some indication of what you as the faculty believe is important and what you consider unimportant. For if you do this and provide us with a little more time for study and reflection, perhaps we can participate in a more...
Worried savings and loan men insist that pint-size C.D.s steal their customers, and the Administration seems to agree. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler wants Congress to empower federal bank regulators to roll back the maximum interest to 5% on C.D.s of less than $10,000. House Banking Committee Chairman Wright Patman wants to outlaw all C.D.s on the ground that they have become "financial monsters." Congress will probably give the Johnson Administration about what Fowler asked. Whether it will act fast enough to protect savings and loan associations from heavy savings losses after their semiannual dividend payments next month...