Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While virtually all departments persist in their scholastic graduate school oriented philosophy, a careful perusal of the catalogue reveals a considerble number of creative courses, some of which lack any scholarly content whatsoever. Professor Leon Kirchner's Seminar in Composition (Music 268), for example, avoids any attempt to teach musical composition to the scholar for use in analyzing other composers' works. Its purpose is quite frankly to teach a creative art. The same probably holds true for English composition courses although the instructors of these courses are singularly unsure of just what their real purpose...
...Jordanian government has asked Harvard to accept a restriction. But those who proudly oppose Harvard's participation on this ground should be prepared to look with equal pride upon the refugees living in hovels upon a bare subsistence diet. They might remember that these conditions will persist indefinitely unless projects like Jarba succeed. Yet if the project does succeed, the opponents of Jarba will have the privilege of saying, "I oppose this: it was built with un-Jewish labor...
...bomb movement, which advocates unilateral Western dis armament. Together, they stood charged* of planning a giant sitdown demonstration in Parliament Square, of "inciting members of the public" to attend even after the Ministry of Works declined permission for the rally, and of being "likely to persist in such unlawful conduct." Asked the court clerk: "Are any of you willing to be bound over to be of good behavior and keep the peace?" Philosopher Russell shouted his answer...
...until the last moment to raise objections, and have refused to be deterred by court reversals; last week after a federal district court turned down their eleventh-hour effort to halt the merger of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. and Hanover Bank, the trustbusters said that they would persist in the courts-which means that the case may drag on for months after all the banks' change has been put in one pocket. And when Ford announced that it planned to absorb noncompetitive Philco (see Corporations), the snap reaction among many businessmen was: "What will Bobby Kennedy...
...person), he sent to an admirer a blurb for his work, intended to be passed on to his publisher. "Personally," wrote Walt, "the author of Leaves of Grass is in no sense whatever the 'rough,' 'eccentric,' 'vagabond' or queer person that the commentators persist in making him . . . always bodily sweet & fresh, dressed plainly & cleanly, a gait & demeanor of antique simplicity ... an American Personality, & real Democratic Presence, that not only the best old Hindu, Greek and Roman worthies would at once have responded to, but which the most cultured European would likewise...