Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sound and the Fury, doubtless reflects some attributes of the archetypal Harvard student. One can hardly doubt that the philosophical debate on the meaning of time in the few minutes before being late to a nine o'clock lecture is uncommon. But Quentin's dilemmas, Faulkner would insist, are not the dilemmas of the Harvard student, or even of the Southern student at Harvard. They are rather the "old verities and truths of the heart." Faulkner's insistence on these verities became a recurrent theme whenever he talked about his own works, and beneath the sometimes self-conscious insistance...
Status Symbol. To a man. European steelmakers deny any ambition to invade the U.S. market in greater strength. All their expansion, they insist, is intended to meet local demand. Even so. they will still be competition for U.S. mills. More and more. European companies are concentrating on increasing their output of high-quality steel for specialized uses...
Before leaving for his swing around Western Europe. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk let it be known that he did not intend to bring up the problem of the separate nuclear force that the French insist on building. As it turned out, it became the major issue of Rusk's trip. In effect, the U.S. is developing a new nuclear policy for Europe. The U.S. wants to avoid proliferation of H-bombs, and has in fact tightened up on control of its own nuclear weapons abroad. But Washington has realized that the French can at best be delayed...
...Second Canal. During his talks with Kennedy, Chiari repeated his theme that "Panama will always insist it has sovereignty over all of our territory, and this is something we shall never surrender." But as an accomplished bargainer who knows more or less what to expect before he sits down, he was prepared...
...last three years has achieved quite a reputation as a figure painter. These cutouts, which were the stage sets for Koch's play, are a side line for Katz-huge toy soldiers, a kind of instant folk art, that would be fine if everyone concerned did not insist on taking them seriously. "I like to mix what people and experts say can't be mixed," says Katz. "I like to take a vulgar social thing or idea like these cutouts and give them something else, make them less boring." Katz's Washington is much like what...