Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carrying the Male. But there remains one enormous roadblock on the path of female emancipation: the Japanese man. Few husbands will take their wives out for an evening. Their usual excuse is that their employers, for business reasons, insist that they attend numerous geisha parties, where much of the nation's business is still transacted. In the geisha houses, the jokes and sake drinking have not changed in a thousand years. Tipsy politicians and businessmen play such children's games as "scissors, paper, rock" or the passing of lighted tapers until they go out, to determine who must...
Private Wedding. It was for this reason that the imperial family felt compelled, in face of the facts, to insist that the marriage of the crown prince and Mi-chiko-san had been arranged. Last week, as that marriage drew near, Michiko Shoda appeared to be approaching her nuptials with the supreme poise of a young woman confident of her worth. On April 10 Michiko and the crown prince, alone except for a Shinto priest, will be married in an "inner sanctuary" of the blue-moated Imperial Palace. There will be no spectators, no witnesses. The priest will wave...
...again, as always, top honors rests with the soloists, O'Brien Nicholas and Thomas Beveridge. By now, heaping any more praise on these two becomes boring to reviewer and reader, but they insist on turning in performance after immaculate performance of the highest musicianship. Last night it seemed as though Beveridge might have trouble with his high part, but his complete mastery over his voice and unerring phrasing pulled him through. Miss Nicholas surpassed her best with a flawless reading of an enormously difficult sustained aria. Her voice had even more richness and color than in the past...
...British insist that they cannot understand just what "the Maldivians are up to." Replied a Maldivian spokesman: "We do not want to be involved in world controversies...
...think beyond lines laid down by teachers. Cramming for exams swallows a large proportion of the students' time, and since questions are drawn by lot from lists circulated weeks beforehand, it is possible for a hard-working parrot to have huge scholastic success. For panicked patriots who insist that the-U.S. look abroad for an educational model-something he does not suggest-Hechinger reports that Norwegian academies teach more math and physics than Soviet schools, and that "any French high school graduate would find the Russian [final] exam a breeze...