Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny stage of a straw-hat theater in Cambridge, Mass, last week Paul Robeson made his first U.S. appearance in Othello. After seeing him, scholars might still insist that Shakespeare meant Othello for a Moor and not a Negro. But drama lovers well might ask why, having played it twelve years ago in London, Robeson waited so long to play it over here. For in spite of muffing certain speeches-his lines sometimes throbbed awkwardly-and overacting certain scenes-his Grand Manner sometimes burst a seam-Robeson gave a performance that even at its worst was vivid and that...
...production, beginning this month, of 20 Saroyan plays. Said he: "We have a terrific program outlined. If I were drafted or given a commission to do writing it couldn't be one bit as effective as the writing I am doing as a civilian. However, I'll insist on one thing, that I will not be required to write...
...uncommon man: he strives to be uncommon." But let the uncommon man, the trained expert, be faced with the concerns of the community and "he is apt to be as much of a propagoose as any ordinary citizen, if not more so." The moral is plain. We need to insist, most of all, "upon the limited competence, indeed upon the fallibility of every man, be he ever so uncommon," and hardly less, upon the belief that "the mass of common men are, in the long run, less likely to be wrong than the individual judgement of any superman...
Airmen argue for planes, insist that dive-bombers can blow a tank attack to smithereens. This is still partly theory, since nowhere in World War II have airplanes proved themselves able to stop tank attacks. Too often it is difficult to get enough planes into the air, and planes are often stymied by the bad weather that tanks thrive on. Tanks can be efficiently attacked from the air when surprised in big concentrations-but World War II armies have learned better...
...Ornithologists insist that the Modock and the Oozlefinch derive from a common ancestor. The Modock's first migration to the U.S. was noted early in the 1920s, when the Quiet Birdmen insisted that they were no relation to either the kiwi or the Modock. The kiwi's natural habitat is New Zealand...