Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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TIME Washington Correspondent Stanley Cloud, who has covered Carter for several months, reports: "Another problem for Carter?and one that will probably persist as the Republicans zero in on him?has been his reputation as a steel-hard, ambitious man for whom winning is the highest value. The description is by no means complete, but there is some truth in it. Carter is a man of striking contradictions. He tirelessly invokes love but can be a tough political infighter. He speaks movingly of the need to help the poor and downtrodden, but he suggests that the solution is to change...
...training and involvement in "Big Man" as simply one step toward easing racial differences at the Loeb. They are enthusiastic about "Big Man" and the opportunities it presents. But they are concerned that the attitudes of HDC people which made CAST demand a greater role in the production will persist...
...admittedly mortal Jagger sings "time waits for no one and it won't wait for me". Unable to sustain their Pop myth, they ask (with false modesty) to be accepted just like any other rock and roll band. But no matter what, the old images of them persist, and though the brand-new Stones album compares favorably with other examples of contemporary rock music, Black and Blue is a disappointment...
...Negroes negrify themselves. Let them persist to the point of madness in what they're condemned to be, in their ebony, in their odor, in their yellow eyes, in their cannibal tastes ... Negroes, if they [whites] change towards us, let it not be out of indulgence, but terror...
...protagonist of Man Friday is still Crusoe, but he is no longer the hero. It is the intention of the film makers to ridicule Crusoe's 18th century notions of the civilizing ideals which, Scenarist Mitchell implies, persist into and continually plague the 20th. Accordingly, this Friday comes from a very hip tribe. He laughs openly at Crusoe's attempts to instill the principles of wage-earning and sporting competition and figures Christianity to be foolish but harmless. Crusoe is soon turned into a pratfall personification of Western man. When an opportunity to escape the island arrives...