Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capacity Orson Welles regards himself as public-relations man for the U.S. For the first time in his life he cannot avoid early deadlines. Army censors insist on seeing the Lockheed scripts two weeks ahead of time. Nelson Rockefeller, on the other hand, trusts Welles so completely that he does not even go over the South American scripts...
...Others insist that in his later life he copied his own pictures to make enough money for his charities to fellow painters (Corot once refused 10,000 francs for some pictures, asked the buyer to give Millet's widow a ten-year 1,000-franc annuity instead). But as Bachelor Corot grew older, his pictures grew more effeminate, his landscapes became more wishy-washy, more virginal. Famed Critic Julius Meier-Graefe once summed up what was wrong with Corot as a painter by remarking that he "lacked the grain of poison which is the preservative of greatness...
...America insist on hoping that the day will come when we can once more welcome into the brotherhood of civilization a free and friendly Italian nation, giving again to the world the fruit of her shining culture and her splendid traditions...
...question of ownership is becoming steadily less important compared with that of direction and management. . . . Those who direct and manage should regard themselves as servants of the public and partners of all others, rather than as agents for the owners. . . . We will insist that children henceforth be born in houses that are fit homes, receive education to the age of 18, and that everybody have enough of the right foods...
Formerly Sid conducted a radio program of recorded symphonies accompanied by cultured comments in a lush bass. Hence his name Symphony Sid. On his swing show he has added a syrupy Harlem accent. Off the air he sometimes lapses into Middle High Bronx. Lady radio listeners insist Sid's voice has a rich, disturbing quality...