Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them do not. Explains an old (Scotsman who guides Lewis as Virgil and St. Bernard guided Dante: "Milton was right. The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery. ... It has a hundred fine names-Achilles' wrath and Coriolanus' grandeur, Revenge and Injured Merit and Self-Respect and Tragic Greatness and Proper Pride...
...those who insist on going into the business anyway, prime requisites are i) experience "in someone else's successful service station," 2) capital roughly equal to 10% of the hoped-for gross .(for example, $2,670 to gross $20,000-$30,000). Also helpful: sound mechanical knowledge, "an easy, friendly manner in meeting people...
Arlen, who is now writing his third play, The Humble Peacock, views with alarm "the squalid enthusiasm with which countless men, women and children of America and England insist on writing novels, plays and stories...
...voting (but not from lobbying and talking) on the issue, promised to abstain in a realer sense when the commission decides between U.S. sites. The British want Boston (Irish population 40%), which gives it a lead over Philadelphia, Flushing Meadows, Newport, St. Louis and San Francisco. The UNO will insist that it be given an enclave for the site; this would mean that part of the selected city would no longer be part...
Shortly after the judge "entered in shriveled and eccentric majesty," Amery, to everyone's surprise, pleaded guilty to the treason charge. "In effect the young man was saying 'I insist on being hanged by the neck in three weeks' time.' A murmur ran through the court which was expostulatory, which' was horrified, which was tinged with self-pity, for this was suicide. ... It was quite clear that he was . . . congratulating himself on having at last, at the end of his muddled and frustrated existence, achieved an act crystal line in its clarity. . . ." That kind...