Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that was comprised of one-half of the upper one per cent of the human race at best; and one-quarter of their emotions--the worst crime, next to being poor, was to be sexual." And several generations of slow (but inattentive) readers will be delighted to hear him insist that The Ambassadors is "one of the silliest and most uninformed novels about American business and French art alike...
...White House statement on South Vietnam said that the major part of the U.S. military program can be completed by the end of 1965 and that 1,000 American personnel can be withdrawn by the end of this year. Congressmen should insist that the withdrawal of 1,000 U.S. personnel within the year, followed by regular withdrawals scheduled to remove all combat troops by the end of 1965, be the test of whether the war can be won. If this schedule cannot be met, the United States can only lost by staying...
...evasive for his statements to be taken seriously. They seldom bother to see Diem government officials because, they say, the effort only gets them either more lies or runarounds. They have no apologies for their total dislike of the Diem government, but regardless of their personal feelings, they insist, their reporting has been as accurate as the confusing conditions permit...
...only offensive, it is also dull. One thinks of Harry Truman's reaction to the Follies Bergere: "It was okay for the first few minutes, but you get tired of watching a lot of naked women bounce around after a while." The editors and the writers will undoubtedly insist that their frankness shows life as it is, that openness about sex belongs to the new trend in literature, and that the artist must be honest. Few would disagree with them. But proportion, gentlemen, proportion. The artist can be honest about other things as well. Exhibitionism is quite as distasteful...
...picture of a dragon and title it Daddy, this is called Sublimation. If you don't paint a picture of a dragon and title it Daddy, this is called Repression. The picture itself is called a Symbol. This means Daddy is not really a dragon. If you insist he is, this is called a Delusion." Altogether, the book is enough to make Karl Menninger nostalgic for phrenology...