Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...useful to think of "nature" in the dialogues as either a broadening presence, existing behind the characters and forcing itself on their attention, or even as the ordinary physical landscape of rocks, stones, and trees in which rural affairs take place. For if we insist that "character" in these poems should not be viewed as a substance which lies behind and determines conversation but rather as the way a voice sounds, the way it "takes things", so "nature" can more justly be equated with out sense, vauge enough when it is stated abstractly, of the way things are. Against this...
American liberty is entirely based upon the right to think freely. If we should lose to Communism, it would be because we unconsciously insist upon playing it their way instead...
...diversity in our choices, seek to be timely, and insist on readability. We think that the four new titles can be judged by these standards, for they are: Joyce Cary's Mister Johnson (the best contemporary novel on Africa); S.L.A. Marshall's The River and the Gauntlet (Korean war); Lincoln Barnett's The Universe and Dr. Einstein; and Sybille Bedford's The Trial of Doctor Adams...
...from a revolutionary reform, but its political pitfalls proved to be many and deep. First off, he made the mistake, rare for him, of confusing his whole case with a bungled Pentagon presentation on the Hill that enraged Congressmen. Both the House and Senate now seem likely to insist that the Guard's strength be kept at 400,000 men-a figure that the Guard now falls below. But this manpower requirement would not prevent McNamara from realigning units as he saw fit, and he would be able to build toward it leisurely and with more effective units...
Both papers stoutly insist that the expanding national ambitions of the New York Times had nothing to do with the birth of the news service. But the Post has long been aware of the tall shadow cast from New York, and the service will start operating in October, on the very day the Times's Los Angeles-based West Coast edition first appears in California cities. Says L.A. Times Managing Editor Frank McCulloch: "I know it looks bad, but I'll swear on a stack of Bibles it's a sheer coincidence...