Word: insists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer helps them think up ideas, but the comics use only an outline for a script and make up most of the gags as they go along. They will earn about $150,000 apiece in 1952, but they insist that there is nothing difficult about their art. Explains Bob: "All we do is listen to the radio and watch...
...free colleges and the elective system, with heavy emphasis on "useful" subjects like science. Most U.S. educators today agree that the elective system leads generally to an aimless nibbling at knowledge, or to excessive specialization. But there is bitter disagreement as to what should be done. Most Deweyites insist that 20th century students must combine the liberal arts with "useful" studies, and that the learning of the past must be "reconstructed" to fit present needs. Adler feels that this view has led to totally inadequate half measures, i.e., digested "survey" courses in the humanities. But there are signs that...
...Members of the Pacific Coast Surgical Association, somewhat startled to find that not all hospitals insist on a "sponge count" after operations, appointed a committee to help Jack up standards all round. Said the association's president: "Few of us realize how frequently sponges have been left in abdomens...
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, said that although the law may be technically constitutional, it is unwise. "The guilt of the teacher should be overt," he said. "We should merely insist that she be a law-abiding citizen, that her teaching meet professional standards, and that she not mix political beliefs with her teaching. What else she does or believes is her own business...
...charge that U.S. planes had bombed Manchuria; 2) accused the U.N. of "barbarously massacring" Korean civilians at the Koje Island prison camp (see above); 3) said that they would hold out forever, if necessary, against the U.N. proposal for the voluntary repatriation of prisoners of war; 4) continued to insist that Russia be accepted as one of the six "neutral" nations on the truce commission...