Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both he and Reynolds insist that the inquiry is long-range in its nature. "You must remember, " Seiler says, "that the College switched during the war to the cafeteria system, but never completely converted all its facilities to operate on this basis...
What makes this book so valuable is the fact that there is enough meat in it to keep thoughtful readers growling over it indefinitely. The critic may well argue that Eliot's definition of culture is too personal and too narrow. He may insist that few aristocrats contribute as much to culture as they drain from it-and that the same may be said of poverty, illiteracy, class friction and bigotry. He may even insist, as most people do, that the flexible human race can always be relied on to re-create a new culture even while...
...75th birthday, is a neatly packaged film based on four unrelated Maugham short stories. Expertly scripted by R. C. Sherriff (Odd Man Out, This Above All, etc.) and urbanely introduced by Author Maugham himself, it also makes a handsomely mounted gift for moviegoers who don't insist on all the Hollywood formulas...
...least one institution, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology, thought so. In the last year, reported Chairman of Admissions John M. Daniels, Carnegie's enrollment applications had dropped 40%. Said he: "It is a 'buyer's market from now on, and those colleges which insist on top-ranking students are going to have to go out and compete for them as we did in prewar years . . . The honeymoon is over...
...apparent that if these men are prevented from performing in this country, the far greater loss will be ours, not theirs; the cause of music in America will suffer more than the personal fortunes of these men . . . It is curious to observe with what seeming fervor some people insist on tilting with ideological windmills long after the cause in question is supposed to have been...