Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the fact that disciplinary action has been taken against some of the participants in the first fracas last Sunday, those involved in current plans insist that they are not seeking "revenge" against the Administration...
...slice of bread; five slices of liver pate, fried crisp bacon, mushrooms and sliced tomato-on a slice of bread. Seconds are available for the asking, and SAS, for one, passes around a tray from which a passenger may take as much as he wants. But European airlines insist that they are perfectly within their rights just so long as a slice of bread is the underpinning for their repasts. Though they appreciate the free publicity provided by Pan Am's sandwich crusade, they intend to fight any move to make sandwiches more Spartan. Said a Swissair spokesman: "Every...
...Harvard is compelled to attend the services of a particular church (or temple, or mosque); but neither should any church be compelled to admit into itself ceremonies of other sects. To insist on such compulsion is certainly not to favor tolerance against intolerance. It is rather to prefer irreligion (or perhaps mere religiosity) to every conviction of religious reality. By welcoming, without query, the services of all faiths, the church would in effect exclude everyone whose religion is more than a gesture; it would be making itself into a shrine to the one unifying faith of Harvard indifference...
...Philosophy Professor Morton White in a speech at Hillel House: "There have been great Catholic students of Catholic theology and great non-Catholic students of it. There have been great Protestant students of Jewish theology. There have been great Jewish students of Catholic theology ... A scholar and teacher must insist that it is possible to understand a statement without accepting it, to understand a style of literature without admiring it, to understand the motives of Napoleon, Caesar or Stalin without praising them...
...compliments to young Richard Diebenkorn for having had the courage to break with the "new academy of abstraction." I am getting bored by the still-growing multitude of poor imitators of the 40-year-old experiments by Kandinsky, Klee and Mondrian, who, while never reaching them, insist on calling themselves the avant-gardists of our time...