Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ways of Nineveh and Tyre, its domination of the world is over, the awesome fleet and the tentacular intelligence service are but memories, and the sagacity of its statesmen almost (but not entirely) vanished." Nevertheless, says Barzini, the Britons realize their limitations. Helas, the French do not. They insist upon being treated as Europe's grandest military, economic, cultural and gustatory power. In fact, he notes, "foreigners have to remind themselves they are not dealing with a country that really exists, a country many of them love, with its admirable past and its actual respectable achievements, potentials, and capacities...
...posted in schools that have bilingual programs. The first priority of every immigrant should be to learn the language of the adopted country. Placing non-English-speaking students in separate classes merely prolongs the painful road of integration. Minorities will be second-class citizens as long as they insist on isolating themselves...
Other lawmakers, like Wisconsin's Senator William Proxmire, insist that any member of Congress who keeps a job has an automatic conflict of interest. Baker responds that only those who live and work back home really appreciate the needs of constituents. Today's Congress, says Baker, spends most of the year in Washington worrying about the minutiae of complex legislation. "I cannot see any place in the Constitution or the early documents of the Republic where it says Congress was supposed to compete with the bureaucracy in the detailed daily nitty-gritty of governing this country," Baker adds...
Although the Polish government generally, if grudgingly, tolerates the committee, members are under no illusions about their status. They insist, however, on the church's right to undertake charitable activities, even under martial law. Says a volunteer: "It is a legal way of defying the authorities, and we want to show that we can deal in a Christian way with the people running this country...
...extremely costly Rubens drawing." I claim, legitimately, to be well read, and yet at the age of 26 have not discovered Dickens or Dostoyevsky, my favorite Russian author. My sexual inclinations are an open secret even in the early years, yet in a 1902 letter speaking of homosexuals I insist that...