Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the claims of society. He has become a figure half out of folklore, half out of schoolbooks, as worn and familiar as the coin that bears his likeness. A century ago he carried out the most dramatic act of liberation in man's memory. However cogently historians may insist that the Civil War was not "about" slavery, the world will always see in it one overriding issue: whether any man is fit to hold permanent power over the life and liberty of another. He was certain that both Emancipation and the Union served universal causes. He said: "In giving...
...scholars insist on carrying the ideal of freedom this far. In 1953, Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold argued in a landmark statement that a professor must have both "integrity and independence" and the "affirmative obligation of being diligent and loyal in citizenship." Captive scholarship was just as far from his mind as from Machlup's, but he meant to make it clear that professors must defend the country in time of danger...
...INSIST THAT UNITY MEANS UNIFORMITY. "People are too shortsighted to see that no encompassing uniformity is found even within their own denominations. So they will go on resisting unity because they think their freedom to enjoy diversity will be jeopardized...
...foisted upon the party U.S. Attorney Robert Morgenthau, a hapless candidate who endangered the chances of several Democratic candidates for Congress. Bobby denies that he did any such thing, places the blame for Morgenthau's selection on New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner. But the critics insist that Bobby telephoned Bronx Democratic Boss Charles Buckley, enlisted his support for Morgenthau and thereby turned the unhappy trick. And Morgenthau's defeat, of course, did nothing to endear Bobby to his critics...
...brutal fact is that if Hussein falls, Israel is more than likely to march to the west bank of the Jordan River, slicing off the null piece of Jordanian territory that protrudes into Israel. And even should U.S. and U.N. pressure force the Israelis back again, they might successfully insist on border rectifications to produce a more defensible frontier against the Arab world, and a U.N. force to guard against attack from the east. A knowledgeable Western observer is convinced "that Israel will attack Jordan if given sufficient excuse or provocation. It would be short, dirty, and over...