Word: insists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Antipoverty officials will decide within the next two weeks whether to grant Haravrd Upward Bound a compromise request. Administrators at the School of Education insist that the program will continue, with undiminished energy and enthusiasm, even if OEO rejects the proposal. But it will remain, for another year at least, merely a stab in the dark...
...Harvard CO's are personal pacifists. "These guys will hit back if someone attacks them," according to an AFSC draft advisor. Although some insist on the absolute sanctity of human life, most believe that even killing is justifiable in some instances. The question is, where does one draw the line on the use of force? At hearings, draft boards pay close attention to the CO's answer to this question and probe for inconsistencies in his position...
Still other ex-sisters insist that they left precisely because their orders were not moving fast enough on the road to post-counciliar reform. "There seemed to be such great conservatism and such lack of promise from updating my community," says one former nun, "that I felt there was no point in waiting for the next 50 years." Many spiritual rebels who have left the convent did so in the conviction that they could serve Christ far more effectively in secular life. Unless the orders accelerate the pace of change, believes Sister Jean Reidy of the Sisters of Humility...
...Germany. "Delightful as the Stradivari varnish might be to look at," he says, "it hardly contributes anything to the sound." Time, say the experts, is far more important. "A man reaches his prime around 40, a violin at about 100," explains Cremona Luthier Pietro Sgarabotto. Thus many luthiers insist that old violins are better only because they are older, that a century from now the fiddles being made by such modern masters as Sacconi, and Carl Becker Sr. of Chicago, will equal the fabled Strad. That, of course, remains to be heard...
...representative," said Bobby, "that Manchester was becoming ill from an obsession with the thought that the book might never be published." Consequently, Bobby sent him a telegram in July saying that "members of the Kennedy family will place no obstacle in the way of publication." The Kennedys insist that the telegram "contained neither a waiver of any of the approval rights" nor an approval of the timing of publication...