Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impetus for West German rearmament, with or without safeguards, is growing. The military men of NATO insist that German arms are needed to defend Western Europe. Diplomats, particularly in the U.S., believe that German rearmament is necessary before the West can be strong enough to force diplomatic concessions from Moscow. Businessmen, particularly in Britain, want German rearmament so that German industry will have to contribute its share to the common defense, instead of being free to spend all its energy on grabbing world markets...
...wants. If the student cannot even take that much trouble, this view point reasons, he is no fit grist for the social mill, and deserves to be excluded. The other school of thought, the 100 per centers, say that natural selection is fine--up to a point. But they insist that all Princeton men are entitled to membership in the only real social force at the college, and that everyone must receive a bid to some club. Actually, men whom the clubs have taken as "charity" cases have often worked-in very well, and in many instances are the club...
...typical of one of the strongest currents of his age) it is often the simple and obvious which is the profound; but of course the naivete is deceptive, and the real meaning of the phrase is neither simple nor obvious. The artist, however, must in no case insist upon this "real meaning"; though he has grasped it fully, his performance must have the fluency and calculated nonchalance which are the signs of restraint and cultivation. If he exceeds these bounds in any but the subtlest manner he questions the ability of a presumably equally cultivated audience to grasp the clusive...
...blame does not rest entirely on the students. Why, one might ask, do language departments insist upon sending their gentlest and least experienced members to face the unfeeling recalcitrance of the requirement class? And why, in some cases, do these teachers freely admit to their classes that, after all, this is only a requirement course and will probably be very dull for both teacher and student? After such a beginning it certainly will...
Such workers are heavily handicapped because 1) any wage earner over 40 has a bad time getting a new job except in a boom, 2) many big corporations insist on compulsory retirement at 65. The difficulties of the over-40 jobseekers are based on the widespread belief of many companies that they are less efficient. This was reflected in a Temple University questionnaire, in which 31% of the industries polled expressed the belief that the work of older people tends to be poor. Paradoxically, the same questionnaire also proved this belief false. In rating the work of their own employees...