Word: persistency
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...official myth may persist: man is the thinking animal. But whether the problem is Viet Nam or population growth, homosexuality or the existence of God, he seems to be turning queasier and queasier at the prospect of reviewing his thoughts "just once more." Thinking seems less and less likely to solve his problems. Worse, thinking seems to have become the problem...
After five years of student militancy I suspect we should all be inured at the symbolic politics indulged in yesterday by the Negro students who confronted the Deans and President Bok over Harvard's Gulf Oil holdings. But I persist in thinking this kind of political behavior silly and irrelevant...
...urge closer screening of foreign investments and possibly even compulsory Canadian shareholding of 51% or more in some local subsidiaries of non-Canadian corporations. That is hardly the sign of friendly capitulation that U.S. negotiators are impatiently awaiting from Canada. Trudeau said last week that his government planned to persist in scheduling new trade talks. Even so, the chances are unfortunately strong that U.S.-Canadian trade relations will grow still worse before they get better...
...paid transportation to the site, and even free green stamps just for showing up. Many developments are models of intelligent planning, from Titan Group's Yosemite Lakes Park in California to J.M. Huber Co.'s Beaver Cove on Maine's Moosehead Lake. But fraud and misrepresentation persist, and large swatches of unspoiled wilderness are being turned into tacky subdivisions...
Robert Coles questions why Agee did not see through rationalization that allowed those three families, and so many like them, to persist with their particularly Faulknerian sense of endurance. Is Agee's ignoring of their rationalizations symptomatic of his prejudice surmounted? Is, in short, Agee's extraordinary, and lyrical compassion a feat of overcoming, or is it the bleeding of a liberal heart? If the answer is the first of these, and I suspect it is, then Let Us Now Praise is a remarkable study of the blindspot in a bigotry overcome, that is, its embarrassment to condemn, where condemnation...