Word: persisted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Even when they are much older than I am, they still call me 'Mother,' " explains Anita Caspary. Two years ago, she gave up her religious name, Mother Humiliata, and her title of Mother General of the order, to become simply "president" of the community. But old attitudes persist. "Some of them want me to make their decisions for them," she says. "If I told this woman to come with our group, she would do it as a mark of obedience. But what I am trying to do is get her to make her own judgment. Younger women...
...occasion. When the Department of Justice threatened to block a planned merger of the British Petroleum Co., Ltd. and Standard Oil (Ohio) several months ago, Annenberg helped to persuade the trustbusters to drop their objections. The merger went through, to the delight of a grateful British government. But worries persist. "We know Annenberg can get through to Nixon," said a top-ranking British diplomat. "But can you persuade him to say the right thing...
...long. But if you look very carefully at the script. Genet has given you guides not to anger but to hate. He says, for instance, that our ideas must spring from hatred, or that politeness must be raised to such a pitch that it becomes monstrous. "Let Negroes persist to the point of madness in what they're condemned to be in their ebony, and their yellow eyes, and their cannibal tastes." That is what I tried to do in the production, to get this ice-cold hatred. To me, it's much more truthful to what the man wrote...
Naturally enough, one of the many sponsors of In Transit is James Joyce, "my great Triestine compalien, the comedichameleon, the old pun gent himself." The punning and the aesthetic trinity of Evelyn Hilary, the fictional "I" and Miss Brophy herself persist with vengeful logic to the very end. There, on the last page, the author signs off with a drawing of a fish with the word fin on its fin. Does it mean the end, or does Miss Brophy expect us to follow indefinitely in Finnegans wake like so many gulls...
Populist Roots. Patman's tireless advocacy of easier credit long ago gained him renown as "the last of the great Populists." The Populist fallacy-the bigger the money supply, the more for everybody-lost its national appeal after the election of 1896. but strains of it persist in the rural America where Patman has his roots. He was born in Patman's Switch,* Texas, the son of a struggling farmer. He earned enough money as a sharecropper and insurance salesman to take a law degree at Tennessee's Cumberland University. As district attorney in Texarkana, his present...