Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promised massive aid, "just as we helped to provide the resources adequate to help rebuild the economies of Western Europe." As important as the cash was Kennedy's high degree of sensitivity to the trends, pressures and demands of Latin America today. Some Kennedy responses: ¶ Latin Americans insist that long-range economic development must be paralleled by quick social change. Kennedy proposed that his plan begin with a burst of projects-schools, housing, food-aimed at relieving human misery...
...Exercise of the free intellect will in no way endanger the country's internal security," the statement says, and it asserts, "Not only teachers, but all Americans, we insist, must be free from trial by publicity--from what Mr. Justice Black has called 'exposure, obloquy, and public scorn...
...itself." Mexican officials privately (and unhappily) fear that the U.S. may be planning to give massive support to an invasion of Cuba by anti-Castro exiles. As proof, those who predict an invasion pointed to last week's meeting at Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, where, at U.S. insistence, anti-Castro refugee leaders of the left and right began working out a common program and a provisional government-which they optimistically insist will be proclaimed "soon" on liberated Cuban soil...
...Advocate's conclusions are even more annoying (if possible) than its sticky old tangle of a prose style. Both reviewers insist that their writers discuss "the meaning of life" and maintain "a faith in man"--two mental gumdrops which never fail to sustain the mind and sweeten the soul of the incompent critic...
...issue is whether the committee uses its powers as an investigating body to silence critics--as Wilkinson's defense claims. Apologists for the majority's decision insist that it does not give the committee authority to subpoena and humiliate anyone who publicly attacks its actions; the argument runs that the Court has merely found in this instance that the questions asked Wilkinson were legitimate and pertinent to its Atlanta investigations, bearing no relations to the man's hostility towards the committee. Reasonable as the apologists sound, they are blind to what Douglas and Black see: that a majority...