Word: insists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...course, all American critics have not adhered to such an ahistorical, formalistic view of literature. In addition to the mechanical Marxists and Freudians whose overt reductionisms enjoyed a certain vogue in the '30s and '40s, prominent critics like Edmund Wilson and Lionel Trilling continued to insist on the importance of social and psychological concerns in understanding literature. But such critics always stood outside the mainstream of literary studies, particularly in the universities...
...Sino-American relations, which Kissinger did much to restore after a 23-year break, have gone from sweet to sour. Some diplomats insist that Richard Nixon's invitation from Peking was designed not only as an honor for the ex-President but also as a slap at Kissinger for appeasing the Russians...
...directors' cautiously crafted reply to recipients of the Kerry letter ignored some charges and insisted that others "verge on conscious dishonesty." They said their annual incomes were "far less" than Kerry's $100,000 estimate, but granted that financial reserves had been "seriously depleted" in order to build the Boston church center. Last week a spokesman added that the Kerry figures on membership and failing churches were distorted. Apparently undeterred, Kerry wants his fellow Scientists to demand a special investigation and insist on "an honest and thorough account" of church conditions at the annual June meeting in Boston...
Different Rates. The airlines insist that in principle they favor simplified fares, but they also find the differing rates an effective way of attracting new passengers. While cut-rate fares are of less consideration to business travelers, who must fly where and when the job dictates, they appeal to vacationers, who are often willing to fly at less convenient times and to schedule trips far in advance to save a few dollars. Fully 80% of Pan American's transatlantic passengers take advantage of cut-rate fares...
...with bourgeois society.... But economic liberalism has become, in corporate structure, economic oligopoly, and, in the pursuit of private wants, a hedonism that is destructive of social needs. The two can be sundered. We can reject the pursuit of bourgeois wants, as lacking a moral foundation for society, and insist on the necessity of public goods...