Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They try to keep a low profile about their membership. Clubs are a private thing, they say. They don't want publicity, they insist...
...example, women who have grown up in sexually abusive environments are unlikely to be protective to their bodies or to insist on their own physical autonomy. A woman who has grown up as the victim of incest is unlikely to consider the idea of sexual "violation" as a relevance to her; all her sexual experiences have been abusive violations...
...details as where to live, whom and when to date, what courses to take in school, even how often to have sex with a spouse. One former convert says he was led through a detailed financial inventory to ensure that he would contribute heavily. Despite such extraordinary intrusions, many insist the group has uplifted them. Boston chiropractor Ken Lowey, for one, says that before he and his wife Ann signed up, "there was a real emptiness, no sense ) of purpose in our lives...
...silly to insist on putting someone that famous in a place that only seats four to five hundred people," said David L. Duncan '92, who did not win one of the tickets in the lottery...
...great virtue of Keith Gordon's film is that it does not insist on its own metaphorical importance. It remains an anecdote, a memory of an odd moment of grace wrested from the rush of megahistory. Written, directed and acted with intelligently focused simplicity, it is a movie to seek out and to treasure...