Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...layman's astonishment that the Ed School would now have to be reminding itself to minister to individual schools, experts such as Gerald S. Lesser, Charles Bigelow professor of Education and Developmental Psychology and a member of the group that assisted in the preparation of Barth's report, calmly insist that "there are always a lot of ebbs and flows in educational philosophy. We have never really been disassociated with secondary schools." Ylvisaker adds, "This is not a 180 degree change...We were missing one balancing wire and this...
Complainers lace their speech with "always" and "never," and usually insist on sitting down before detailing their gripes-the fellow who complains standing up wants action, but the sitter wants to whine in comfort. It is a serious mistake either to agree or disagree with complainers. Instead, says Bramson, paraphrase the whiners' complaints back to them with "limiting concrete statements that let them know you understand." Noncommittal but encouraging "urns" and "ahs" are helpful...
...Pudding suggested that they would print an apology and the letter we wrote them in the (show's) program," Houn said, but she added that the AAA will insist that the producers "de-ethnicize the character...
...afflictions are minor and might not even be noticed if Reagan were not under the most intense scrutiny. He plows through grueling campaign days with apparently undiminisned vigor, though he does try to get eight hours of sleep a night; and until late in the New Hampshire campaign he insisted on flying back to California every weekend to relax at his ranch, a $1.5 million enclave near Santa Barbara that few reporters or even campaign aides are ever permitted to visit. His doctors insist that he is in "remarkably good" health, and he maintains a hard campaign schedule without feeling...
...understand if he is child or adult, savage or saint, and this conflict epitomizes the struggle in Golding's fabel. Golding fuses the traits of Ralph, Simon, and Jack--the three major characters in Lord Of The Flies--into one persona, further complicating Darkness Visible. Matty's internal voices insist he is "at the centre of an important thing and has been always." Such mystical thought resonates throughout Matty's journal...