Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...errors continue to pile up. Messrs. Smith (Sir Toby) and Whitehead (Sir Andrew) insist on accenting "exquisite" on the second syllable; and their extended byplay with a bath-towel completely distracts from Malvolio's crucial letter-reading scene. As Malvolio, Richard Waring--as fine a classical speaker as any actor in the company--is vastly over-directed in his climactic cross-garter scene. One of the points of this scene is that Olivia abhors the color of yellow, yet she keeps training in and out carrying a yellow rose. After her marriage, reference is made to her wedding ring...
Lesage is known in Quebec French as "le go-getter." In 1945 he won a House of Commons seat from a rural riding. Most Quebec M.P.s insist on speaking French in Ottawa; Lesage gamely practiced his halting English in the House until he mastered it. In 1958 he resigned his Parliament seat to take on the job of reviving Quebec's moribund Liberal organization. He is married to a former concert soprano, Corinne Lagarde, has four children...
...speak. But the Tories professed not to be worried. Their provincial organization in Quebec is practically nonexistent, even though they captured 50 of 75 Quebec seats in the federal House of Commons in the 1958 election. Since their ties with the old Duplessis machine were informal at best, they insist that the Liberal upset in Quebec does not really affect the Diefenbaker government's national popularity. All this is true, but Quebec itself-that proud, peculiar and partisan province-was in for a change...
Most U.S. merchants could detect no concerted shunning of Japanese goods by their customers. Big U.S. companies that import from Japan-such as Sears, Roebuck, Woolworth, Montgomery Ward-all insist that they intend to continue importing Japanese goods. Said a top executive of Boston's William Filene's Sons: "From the corporate point of view, to stop selling Japanese goods would be like closing school because a couple of kids had broken some windows...
Landlords usually get between 25% and 30% of the weekly gross. This is an enormous slice, and many producers and actors insist that the theater owners are the real villains of the situation. When Landlord John Shubert complained that the Equity tactics represented a threat to culture, one New York columnist remarked: "That amounts to Attila the Hun denouncing a threat to Christian civilization...