Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other conservatives. To Review came Russell Kirk and Frank S. Meyer, Whittaker Chambers and James Burnham. From the outset, they quarreled snappishly on its pages. Traditionalists like Kirk, who value society over the individual, battled libertarians like Meyer, who emphasize the individual over society. "I pretty much had to insist on the relevance of both points of view," says Buckley, who made it his business to keep the fractious conservatives from splitting completely...
...certain moves to help solve the other problems facing new towns. Sociologists as well as architects and engineers could be part of new town planning teams. Corporations could be given to power to build social facilities, while local authorities could be better represented on corporation boards. The Government could insist that each corporation have a Social Development Office, of equal status to the Architectural office, that would respond to the inhabitants' needs. To help bring the corporation in closer contact to the residents and improve the social balance of the community, the Ministry would insist that corporation executives live...
...world's archaic maze of patent laws and procedures has long been a major nuisance to international-minded businessmen, who insist that it inhibits the global spread of patent benefits through new technology, new industry and expanded markets. Last week delegates from 22 major countries-including the U.S., Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and the Soviet Union, which account for 80% of the world's patent applications-reached preliminary agreement in Geneva on some overdue reforms...
Kicked on the Floor. In practice, school boards have relied mainly on top school administrators and superintendents to decide which new pilot projects, textbooks and course changes to try out. But as teachers insist on having a larger share in setting policy, notes Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Theodoer Sizer, "the superintendent has been kicked on the floor-teachers are dealing directly with the school board...
...fathers insist that they do not influence the sons. "When Terry first started writing," says Red Smith, "I used to interrupt him and ask why he used one word when he meant another. Later, it occurred to me that it might bother him. So I stopped." James Reston pondered the fact that his son might be "cast into the old man's shadow. It's a psychological problem. No proud kid wants to go and hear: 'You're Scotty Reston's son.' " But the kids don't seem to be intimidated by their...