Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel about college the way Louis Armstrong feels about rhythm: "Why man, if you gotta ask what it is, then you ain't got it." This kind of answer makes most people drop the topic, and classifies the persistent investigator as an ignorant boor. But for those who insist on some more telling argument for higher learning than mere manners, several kinds of answers are available...
...Insist on strict adherence to the letter of the law, now largely ignored, that ownership of companies in many sectors of the economy be at least 51% Mexican...
...opinion, the Party is trying to give the crackdown a sugar coat by underlining those sections of Communist ideology which stress that freedom for the artist exists under Party discipline too. A faintly conciliatory tone has appeared in Soviet literary magazines as the Party writers, led by Ilya Ehrenburg, insist that the Soviet writer is just as free as his Western counterpart; in fact, a good deal freer, censorship nowithstanding. Of course, this is Socialist freedom: "The writer is free when he understands the nature of the historical process," comments Alexander Karaganov...
...have no immunity.'' No, said Artist Kelly. "Once my name and copyright are on the strips, I am responsible for what is said in them and how it is said. I'd be will ing to let 519 papers go to hell if they want to insist on a right - which they do not have - to edit my copy." The Pogo balloon that Editor Colburn popped was only the beginning. Said Pogo a few strips later: "This fella said the thing to do when schools is padlocked or bombed is to open a speakeasy schoolroom near...
...domain they have defended so jealously for so long. The new gamblers in the art market plunge only on established painters-those already on the big board, so to speak. The purists argue that pictures held like stocks in a bank vault do no one any good. They insist they would rather hold such pictures for the public-which is to say, for the museums-or, failing that, for private collectors who will at least cherish them...