Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quayle claims vindication. No, he hasn't discovered that potato really has an e after all. But in his just-published memoir, Standing Firm, he does insist that the world has come his way on the question of family values and Murphy Brown. Even Bill Clinton, Quayle observes, has said "there were a lot of very good things" in Quayle's famous speech on the subject...
Despite the steady decline in profits, the managers still have not caught on. For example, while they readily acknowledge that the Cambridge music market is one of the most competitive in the country, they insist on devoting an entire floor of the store to music, and then wondering why exactly that department loses money...
...questions unanswered yet seems appropriate at the same time. Rather than trying to psychoanalyze the pianist, the film seems content to keep the theme of Gould open to interpretation. The film derives much of its humor from the ongoing bewilderment and second-guessing of his friends. Why did Gould insist upon wearing a scarf, hat, and gloves throughout the summer? Why did he set the piano bench so low that he played the keyboard at eye level? Why did he keep 42 botles of ketchup in his hotel room? One hotel chambermaid earnestly explains how all the other maids refused...
Just the contemplation of punishment for Kelso was sufficient for his supporters to insist that he had suffered enough. One reason for the surprising lack of sympathy in the U.S. for the American student Michael Fay after he was sentenced to be caned in Singapore is the increasing recognition that Americans have too much compassion and too little accountability. Our usual way would be to understand the root causes for Fay's vandalism spree -- his attention-deficit disorder and the breakup of his parents' marriage -- and send him on his way. From top to bottom, American society is soaked with...
...disappointed, too, that the more important of my criticisms was not passed along by Meneely. If the Core program is flawed, the students, themselves must be willing to shoulder some of the blame: by insisting on a "star system," on taking classes with the luminaries in the field, they guarantee that those classes will be huge and impersonal. Perhaps what is needed is two-tiered system in which students can satisfy their distribution requirements either through the Core, or in the departments themselves (where, ideally, class size would be much smaller). Either way, nothing will change unless the students themselves...