Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...diplomats insist that there is no specific Carter plan, although the Israeli outline is generally correct. From Jerusalem's viewpoint, the scenario has several flaws. First of all, Israel sees no profit in recognizing the P.L.O. or being recognized by it. Second, Israel will under no circumstances recognize an independent state on the West Bank, although it would accept some kind of Palestinian homeland federated with Jordan. Third, Israel considers Jerusalem nonnegotiable, and will never return to the "indefensible" 1967 borders along the Golan Heights and in Sinai. Says a spokesman: "There must be no difference between our political...
BECAUSE I insist on being one thing, it doesn't mean I've to deny being another," declares one of the characters in Saville. But straddling two worlds is not so easy. Between the dark drudgery of the coal pits and the cold, clean life of the middle classes, there can be little dialogue. Colin Saville, bred from the mines to escape their pull, stands between the two worlds mute and placeless; all that remains for him is to rage wordlessly at the circumstances which have set him free...
...bill that, among other things, would appropriate $9.3 billion for job-creating programs, including public service employment and youth-training plans. That still leaves the question of whether what is left of the stimulus program is enough to cut the nation's jobless rate below 7%. Administration policymakers insist that it will. But if the economy does keep recovering it will be as a result of its own vitality rather than of any major prod from Washington...
That, however, is not something he insists on, any more than he insists on the absurdity of the activities he patiently, unemphatically records in a movie that unfolds slowly but never slackly. The most admirable thing about Aguirre may be the discipline with which Herzog tells his tale. He does not indulge himself in any comments on the action or insist, as most historical dramatists do, on the obvious parallels between his material and modern issues. He does the audience the honor of allowing it to discover the blindnesses and obsessions, the sober lunacies he quietly lays...
This apalling point of tastelessness reached, I must insist that cooler heads prevail and public opinion be brought back into touch with the truth. Obviously, one cannot prevent misguided displays of enthusiasms, since in our society, truth cannot always be the arbiter of public taste. This must be accepted as one of democracy's drawbacks. However, at last count we considered ourselves among the more discriminating people on earth. With this standard to uphold I simply wish to inject a whisp of truth into the bloated reputation this man has acquired...