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The music preceded the title, he insisted, and it would be wrong to hear nuclear-age despair in the clangor of bows being bounced and scraped on the strings, of fingers tapping on wood, or of the siren wails produced by floods of sliding glissandi.
Diaz then trots off to interview Yale's Dr. Robert Stark, whom Metabolife "insisted we interview."
That's possible compared with what the publication goes on to report--that Hillary insisted that the two of them watch the broadcast of Monica's videotaped testimony, during which the president mumbled, "Poor Monica, I'm sorry she had to go through this."
Again and again in his writings, Bettelheim insisted that the daunting task of "inner integration" was a developmental ordeal that could be mastered with great struggle, and with the support of good stories.
Although Bush's campaign manager, Lee Atwater, always insisted publicly that for the Bush campaign Horton was never a racial symbol, Atwater slipped in a speech he gave to southern Republicans right before that year's Democratic convention: