Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone with a little money can now have a coming out, and if a debutante will choose to forgo her party and take a trip to Kenya instead, not even the caterers will care. Weddings still have the traditional trimmings, including white lace and tears, but many couples now insist on writing their own wedding service or at least varying the hallowed music; the customary wedding marches have begun to give way to Handel's Water Music, Haydn's St. Anthony Chorale, or even Spanish guitar tunes...
...William claims that IATA has, under his management, reduced international fares. His critics insist that fares would be even lower, were it not for IATA-recommended rates. It is hard to tell who is right. When IATA was established, a first-class round-trip ticket between New York and London cost $650. Now, with many more planes and a much stiffer competitive situation, that same ticket costs $712.50. But under IATA auspices a whole range of cheaper tickets-tourist class, economy class and excursion rates-has been introduced, so that the truly thrifty tourist can now fly from New York...
...think only of building socialism," says a Rumanian youth. "It is a fact," says a Czech student, "that the only attractive currents for our generation are coming from the Western part of the world. Here they tell us we are a new generation building a new world; then they insist we dance a folk dance two centuries old." As a consequence, Eastern European girls prefer the watusi, the jerk, and big-beat music...
...plug the leak would be for the Administration to take some steam out of the domestic economy-but such a course would bring results slowly. Some businessmen insist that the Government needlessly hampers the efforts of U.S. firms to sell abroad by mindless application of domestic anti-trust laws, by tax penalties, and by weak commercial staffs in embassies. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, last week argued for legislation creating new export tax incentives, which are often of little help...
...coherent than his grotesque Naked Lunch, William Burroughs scissored up his manuscript and pasted it back together higgledy-piggledy before turning it in to his publishers. Result: a hallucinatory little nonbook of babble whose most distinguishing feature is a preoccupation with sodomy and the dubious joys thereof. Burroughs apologists insist that there are plot and Profound Meaning imbedded in the book, but only a cultist will find them...