Word: resistive
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...this blasted job." Hall and other Republican politicians complain that the Eisenhower Administration ignores their patronage demands. It will probably continue to do so. Ike and his top advisers are much less interested in jobs for Republicans than they are in removing those Democratic bureaucrats who, actively or passively, resist Administration policies...
...least one quarter to be watched by Protestants,'' said Dr. Blake, "is the plans and programs of the Roman Catholic hierarchy . . . Certainly the Protestant churches have much more important things to do than to resist Roman Catholicism . . . But surely Protestant leaders do have the responsibility to cast the spotlight upon all Roman Catholic hierarchy efforts to subvert American freedom...
...these. Opera makes a new distraction. "I'm fascinated by it,"he says. With a leave of absence from his chores at Tanglewood promised for this summer, he thinks he may go back to Europe and write a "real big opera." He is quite sure he could resist the distraction of podium and keyboard, , if only because it is harder to,,make flying trips now that the Bernstein menage includes wife, child and governess. The only trouble is, he says, "when you're conducting, you itch to compose, and when you're composing, you itch to conduct...
...parlor steps persuasive Dr. Brightlee, whom the audience has no trouble identifying as the Devil. But this devil is for the most part on the side of the angels-on the side, at any rate, of the world's artists and individualists, of all who possess courage and resist conformity. Nor need they be potential Beethovens; he equally favors a hackie (Robert Emmett) who yearns to be a hoofer...
Despite these checks, officials are confident that eventually the program will be a success, and that the major objective of nerve gas, mass panic and destruction of the will to resist, will be defeated...