Word: persistent
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Shylock to Svengali is a complete, sensitive, well written and valuable work. The only question which Rosenberg does not take up is why the Shylock myth has managed to persist. What repressed fears is society acting out in its persistent creation of the knife bearing villain? Rosenberg says, "I am aware . . . that literary conventions can tell us only so much about a subject which is, as bottom, impenetrable...
...report also implicitly admitted that the tight money policy to fight inflation may have helped to slow the boom, but insisted that the fight laid "a firm base" for sound growth. "Some temporary acceleration of growth might have been achieved if expectations of price increases had been allowed to persist and to become fully rooted." But such growth would have been "unsustainable" and would now confront the economy with "the need for far-reaching and painful correction...
...Renard pointed out that the strike was costing the capitalist owners of industry a billion francs ($20 million) a day. "Every time you cross off a day on the calendar," he cried, "think, another billion less for them!" Would Renard call off the strike? "A single word!" he shouted. "Persist...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17--Secretary of Defense-designate Robert S. McNamara, who sold his Ford stock in a move to allay fears, discovered that fears persist--among the senators who must approve...
...proclaimed a new course in Algeria: "This course no longer leads to an Algeria governed by Metropolitan France, but to an Algerian Algeria- an Algeria that will have its own government, its institutions, and its laws." If the new Algeria chose to break with France, "we would certainly not persist in remaining by force alongside people who would reject...