Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...insist and insist again, by Vague Generalities. We abhor V.G.'s, we skim right past them, we start wondering what kind of a C to give from the first V.G. we encounter; and as they pile up, we decide: C--.(Harvard being Harvard, one does not give D's. Consider C-- a failure.) Why? Not because they are a sign the student doesn't know the material, or hasn't thought carefully, or any of that folly. They simply make tedious reading. "Locke is a transitional figure." "The whole thing boils down to human rights...
...Washington hoped to deter Nasser and reassure Hussein and Saud by sending the U.S. destroyer Forrest Sherman on a "routine" visit to the Saudi seaport of Jidda-the hoary political device that hints of force. And, though it was laconically denied in Washington, sources in the Middle East insist that the U.S. has agreed to a Saudi request that antiaircraft batteries and radar-control equipment be sent to the oft-bombed supply depot at Najran; this, hopefully, would have a sedative effect on Egyptian air raids inside the territory of Saudi Arabia itself...
...Kennedy "friends." The Philadelphia Bulletin listed "those who should know," "those who know the President best," "closest associates," "those in whom he has confidence," and "intimates." But the New York Times's Elder Pun dit Arthur Krock, who has not recently been in Palm Beach, felt free to insist that it was the President him self who had been doing the talking. At any rate, the President's thinking ranged over a variety of subjects, from tax prospects to reflections on Cuba...
...International Dictionary discarded the label "erroneous" for misuse of a word, sanctions any incorrect usage as long as it is common. It calls like, for example, a synonym for as, citing as authority Art Linkletter on a TV program. Writes Macdonald: "It is felt that it is snobbish to insist on making discriminations-the very word has acquired a Jim Crow flavor...
Theology of Space. Christian theologians insist that there is no basic conflict between religion and science?and a lot of scientists agree. They are convinced that if the Christian faith managed to assimilate Darwin there are few other scientific discoveries it cannot handle. Science's function is to describe the nature and phenomena of life?and leave the description of its purpose to religion. Says the University of California's Nobel-prizewinning Chemist Willard Libby: "Science and religion are not in conflict, nor are they in full cooperation. They are fulfilling very different needs...