Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...question of dropping the word "daily" from the News' masthead continues to divide the editors, many of whom assert that it is "dishonest" and "hardly Yale" to claim an undeserved title. Others, however, insist that "It looks good on the page--and it never matters what we say, anyway...
...Baghdad itself, daily bulletins continued to insist that Kassem was recovering nicely from his wounds, would soon leave the hospital. On that happy day, Iraqi citizens were promised free admission to movie theaters, half fare on trains, and free circumcision for their newborn sons. But like any other Arab strongman, Kassem derives his power less from the people than from the army. At week's end, from his hospital bed, "the sole leader'' made a public declaration of confidence in the loyalty of his troops: "I can assure you there is not in the whole...
Housecleaning? One way to nail the schools is to insist on residence requirements; the proprietors would run if any student showed up to meet his teachers. New York and Arkansas, which require one year of residence for a correspondence-school degree, are little plagued by the problem. In contrast, easygoing Colorado, Delaware and Indiana are hangouts for fake schools with a thriving trade in India, Pakistan, Burma and Egypt...
...from her hated life. She gradually gives up her fears, her fight for sanity, puts out welcoming arms to the madness that embraces her. She dances through the house like a dervish at night, comes close to what seems happy suicide. By this time Dr. Montague and the others insist on sending her home, and Eleanor's life ends in one of those terrible scenes of mental horror that Author Jackson knows so well how to contrive. The difficulty is that the story is itself caught in a straitjacket fashioned by the lines of case history. Expert...
...indeed above local responsibilities. While the life of the mind requires no intrusion from without, the intellectual still is in his private life and in the actual exercise of his profession an individual man; and it is nothing but an affront to good common sense for him to insist that his profession precludes commitment to the local (institutional) conditions of his own personal--indeed professional--existence. The matter is made worse by the fact that the typically abstract mind is not always capable of local commitments and tends often to treat this defect as if it were a merit...