Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Condon was the first to insist that Dixieland jazz was worthy of being lifted out of the dingy cellars and onto the concert stage. He helped inspire the whole cult of jazz critics, who could spin out columns on the flittering trumpet solos of Bobby Hackett. To prove his point, in 1942 Condon promoted a highly successful series of jazz "concerts" at Manhattan's Town Hall. During cool jazz's dominance, Condon doggedly ran his own club in Greenwich Village. He organized the bands, promoted Dixieland indefatigably, arranged for the recording sessions...
Both the National Small Business Association and the Small Business Administration insist that small business is doing well, and there is no doubt that it has profited by the expansion. But small business suffers from a chronic lack of cash and management skill-and those shortages hurt far more in these days of computers and tougher competition. Defense spending cutbacks have hit hard at small subcontractors; in the year ended last March, 118 electronics firms from Long Island to Los Angeles were forced to merge or liquidate because of the cutbacks. Small business also finds it harder to cut costs...
...ticket, $1.50 is the legal maximum broker's fee. The code requires all brokers to make available to the league all records of sales, and brokers caught taking ice will lose their future ticket allocations. Of course, if all those fat-cat buyers from the plains insist on waving $50 bills at ticket sellers, no one is likely to tattle on them, and some violations of the code can be expected. But if a cold-eyed broker tries to shake down a customer by demanding sums like that, the victim now has a commissioner to complain...
...name of what Martin Luther King calls "the moral law or the law of God." To lawyers, divine code is too vague for the earthly task of preserving peace and good order here and now. Were all men free to act out their individual "consciences"-as diehard segregationists still insist-victory would simply go to those with the most power, the most guns. By contrast, the rule of law provides enforceable standards-and machinery to change them...
...Boston Arts Festival people cannot put together a respectable exhibition of contemporary visual arts is difficult to say. Probably the most basic problem is the Festival's apparent desire to please the whole of Boston; every year the judges insist on including large numbers of unimaginative realists while neglecting some of the bolder reaches of modern art. And at the same time, the Festival's system of judging (a painting requires the approval of only one of the five judges to be included in the show) increases the likelihood that much undistinguished art will be displayed...