Word: insistence
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...demonstrate a serious concern for moral standards. The problems of South Africa are far too tragic and inflammatory to escape bitter controversy, whatever a university decides to do. Student activists will claim that officials who oppose total divestment are insensitive to the injustices of apartheid, while conservative critics insist that selling stock is only an empty and expensive gesture to appease irresponsible radicals. In this atmosphere, divestment can easily acquire such emotional, symbolic importance that is difficult to examine the issues with the objectivity they deserve. In such circumstances, the only hope is to try to convince as many people...
...rival Dartmouth in triple overtime. The result placed the Crimson in the enviable position of being the only remaining undefeated team in the Ivies. Having already defeated Penn and Princeton, Harvard must still face Cornell, Brown, Yale and Dartmouth on its road to the Ivy League crown, which players insist is their number one priority...
...Today's creators insist that their show is not competing with network news. "Television is a menu," says Friedman, "and not everything has to be / meat and potatoes." Tinker dismisses suggestions that the video dessert tray is not in keeping with the tonier series (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Hill Street Blues) he has been identified with. "My definition of a good television show," he says, "is one that hits the target it aims...
...make the carnage bearable, we tell each other that the North was fighting for God and goodness--"Glory, Glory, Hallelujah." We insist that for one brief moment, right and might were allied to crush the evil South. And so we honor the memory of the victors in America's great crusade; Memorial Hall was built for the explicit purpose of honoring the Northerners...
...winners. The prizes are also given for music, drama, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, history and biography, but it is the 14 journalism awards that will have champagne corks poised in anxious newsrooms. Before the bubbly flows, just one question: Is there a trick to winning? Members of the Pulitzer board insist there is none, but that has not stopped newspapers from playing shamelessly to the judges...