Word: persistant
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lore of the time, as well as in the estimated 300 books since written about the war, one group of soldiers has often been singled out as having failed more abysmally than the rest: the then segregated black units. Tales persist of black troops breaking ranks before the enemy, throwing down their weapons and fleeing, while valorous white officers tried to stem the retreat. That view, argues Blair, is inaccurate and blatantly racist. It arose, he suggests, from disgruntled and sometimes incompetent white officers, and was uncritically absorbed by Army historians. For example, Blair cites the scathing official account...
...scientific jargon claiming to explain much. Yet when the smoke clears, so does the plausibility of his argument. Sheldrake attempts to disprove physical theory by proposing the existence of "pure information" in addition to matter and energy. This information provides the foundation for morphic fields and allows them to persist undiminished through time and space. Though he offers a few tests of this theory. Sheldrake explains away outcomes that would seem to disprove his proposal. He himself is extremely credulous, gleeful that his ideas allow for telepathy, reincarnation, collective memory and the like. With his formative causation, it seems, anything...
...still they persist, counting fully 10 percent of all Harvard undergraduates among their members. And that doesn't begin to include the large number of women who regularly attend their social functions, nor the large number of men who accept their punching invitations and make their best effort to become a member. The University has made its formal rebuke of the clubs, denying them status as official student organizations in 1984; what has been lacking is an equally strong severing of ties with the clubs by us, the student body...
Clearly, there may be cases in which sharp disagreements persist, and discussion of them may occassionally move into a more public arena. As members of a Faculty with a commitment to free and open debate and an unabridged right to determine the content of our courses, we should be prepared to defend our views. Students also have a right to disagree both within and outside the classroom. The University cannot prevent all of the conflicts that a commitment to free enquiry may provoke. But in this case it continues to be my hope that our students' concerns will be discussed...
...antigovernment umbrella organization with more than 600 township affiliates claiming 2 million members nationwide; the Azanian People's Organization, an all-black radical group; the Detainees Parents' Support Committee; the Release Mandela Committee; and several youth and civic groups. Vlok claimed that he was taking action against those "who persist in promoting a revolutionary climate," but the decree in effect outlaws almost all extraparliamentary protest by blacks, even if it is nonviolent. Said Azhar Cachalia, the U.D.F. treasurer: "The government has declared war against all peaceful opposition to its policies." Eighteen leaders of the banned organizations were served with individual...