Word: insist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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, one does 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...
Turkey would probably insist that Saudi Arabia take the same step, and the Saudi attitude is unclear. Ideally, Washington would like to see the Arab states stand up to Iraq so that U.N. resolutions can be pursued as support for initiatives from the countries most immediately imperiled by the Iraqi threat. In practice there is little optimism in Washington that the gulf states will display such toughness. And why should they without strong -- and credible -- guarantees of protection...
...candidate for the high court owes the nation an account of why he stands there. Some people who are close to Souter say he has already decided to discuss the right to privacy on which Roe rests. Many conservatives (and some liberals, including the late Justice Hugo Black) insist privacy is an invented liberty without constitutional foundation. Let Souter second Black, if that be his position, and then echo those liberal scholars like Raoul Berger who say Roe was wrongly decided (although Berger, at least, applauds the opinion's result). Then, if Souter is confirmed, the electorate will not feel...
...wistful sex bomb, Marilyn Monroe reborn from a peroxide bottle with a genie inside, snuggling up to Dick Tracy. She is craftier and more gifted than anyone else playing the game right now, but all her identities have one quality in common. They are teasingly, patently artificial. They insist on their own calculation. They revel in it and induce the audience to do the same...
Perhaps it's time for a change in people's attitudes. True, I unhappily admit to knowing several kids who insist on talking only about the SATs and the prestigious university they "know" will accept them. However, the majority of the kids I've met are warm, friendly people who would much rather complain about the Union food or talk about the latest movie than bore classmates with tales of all their community service back home...