Word: insists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hedge against the Minsky tone of most of the proceedings, Librettists Herbert Fields & B. G. ("Buddy") De Sylva have introduced a bit of innocent juvenile appeal represented by Joan Carroll, aged 8, whose part was originally intended for Shirley Temple and who should please even those who insist on worshiping at that small shrine...
...there are collectors and "critics" today, who still insist that "it's gotta be old to be good." They speak in terms of "pure jazz" as opposed to "commercial swing," and have succeeded in making some people believe that the period from 1920 to 1935 had some intangible quality that gave jazz musicians an inspiration they just don't get these days. Some of them, in the throbs of an overdose of social-consciousness, insist that a musician played better jazz when he wasn't making any money. Today, the average musicians in the average name band gets at least...
Differing drastically as to their requirements, some departments insist that all of their students take Plan A. Last year the Economics Department abolished Plan B, and in other fields only an increasingly small percentage of men do limited tutorial work...
Most advisory groups agree that objectors should not refuse to register, because then they will never have a chance to express their views. At registration tomorrow objectors will not have to state their case. They can do so if they insist, but it would be a useless formality, since the questionnaire which the local draft board will send them later on will offer their real chance to present their arguments...
...reputation. . . . Those whose convictions are of such a character as to bring their conduct in open conflict with the university's freedom to go its way toward its lofty aim should, in ordinary self-respect, withdraw of their own accord from university membership. . . . No reasonable person would insist upon remaining a member of a church, for instance, who spent his time in publicly denying and denouncing its principles and doctrines...