Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Theater, staffers sat in grim silence for 90 minutes while Ferger, 61, denied charges by Ratliff and Cronin that his own salary and bonus (1955 total: $104,699) and those of Assistant Publisher Eugene Duffield ($62,319) were excessive. Moreover, said Ferger, financial backers had urged him to insist on a ten-year contract; while he wanted the right to approve three of the five voting trustees in order to ensure "continuity of management" and "practical control." Ferger also said that Halsey, Stuart & Co., the Chicago investment firm that took $6,000,000 in Enquirer bonds and debentures, had suggested...
...have." Explained David, looking as curbed as Tony: "But I have to be tough with him, so he'll know who's riding him." Indefatigably, the photographers next asked Ike to pat Tony. Sighing, Ike complied, addressing his feelings to Tony: "All right, Tony. They insist on getting a picture of you being patted." Off the Wagon. Susan got restless in the cart, delivering her only comment: "Hey, help me out." That matched Ike's sentiments. Ike told David he could drive on alone up to the farmhouse. Then the President, the girls and their father...
...Author Baldwin feels that every Negro must "make his own precarious adjustment to the 'nigger' who surrounds him and to the 'nigger' in himself." Says he: "I love America more than any other country in the world, and. exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." In that criticism, he has not spared his own race, ranging from the failure of Negro novelists to capture in print "any of the joy of Louis Armstrong or the really bottomless, ironic and mocking sadness of Billie Holliday" to the viciousness of anti-Semitism...
...exhort against modern art and supine art critics (TIME, June 20). Hartford, he complains, "was asking that art define truth rather than express it-and then defining it himself in the narrowest terms . . . To demand of art a specific 'moral answer' is just as unreasonable as to insist, as some formalist critics do, that the artist have no morals at all, that he create in a vacuum...
...role of Ludwig van Beethoven. Before the cameras began to turn, however, somebody began to have doubts. Was not Beethoven, after all, a somewhat limited personality? He was not nearly so famous in his time as Liberace is today, and besides he was a careless dresser. Liberace decided to "insist that all the different facets of my personality ... be included in the picture." As a result, the Beethoven story seems to have been combined with the plot of a well-known melodrama, The Man Who Played God. Liberace could now express his musical talents as Beethoven, and satisfy his dramatic...