Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Davis: I had a style. I make no apologies for it, and I could be very tough about it, and I would insist on certain things because I wanted this company to survive. Now, some of us had differences of opinion, and I daresay Barry Diller was not the only one who left at that time. The only difference is that in the motion picture business in Hollywood, if somebody gets a scratch, right away it's cancer...
...Paramount he had to face another jarring life experience: failure, or something very close to it. Both Tartikoff and his bosses insist his resignation was voluntary, but his record was mixed at best. Though his tenure was too short to judge definitively, many of the movies he was most associated with (Coneheads, Leap of Faith, the low-budget holiday comedy All I Want for Christmas) were box-office disappointments...
Harvard became a co-ed institution in 1977. It is time to insist that Radcliffe do the same. Director CLUH
...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up we decide C-. (Harvard being Harvard, we do not give D's. Consider C-a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student does not know the material, or hasn't thought creatively, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights." Now I ask you, I have...
...titles of six poems in a row, even an occasional date. This, son, makes for interesting (if effortless) reading, and that is what gets A's. Underline them, capitalize them, inset them in outline form: be sure we don't miss them. Why do you think all exams insist at the top: "Illustrate," "Be specific," etc.? They mean it. The illustrations, of course, need not be singularly relevant, but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered throughout your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name...