The issue of journalists' safety was very much part of that discussion, as was my insistence that it should be taught at universities to make sure students understand what awaits them.
He thanked me as it was my insistence that he took part in the school play which, he said, had changed his life".
He thanked me as it was my insistence he took part in the school play which, he said, changed his life.
The depth of my admiration for Lauder now baffles me as much as the steady diet of horehound drops I adopted as snack food, or my insistence, much of one autumn, that I wear a rabbit's foot in each buttonhole of my shirt, which I kept tightly fastened up to the neck.
With regard to surveillance and product marking, the possibility of revising the General Product Safety Directive in the next five years is, in my view, essential, as are the insistence on rules for national marking and the call for a study of European marking.
The essence of propaganda is relentless repetition, and few names have been tossed about with as much insistence as Warhol's.
But I've never been much of a joiner-in, I'm a pretty committed religious agnostic and I've no aversion to stubbornly sticking to what I think is right, as evidenced by my lifelong insistence that people pronounce my last name correctly when it would clearly be easier to just let people Anglicize it at the DMV.
It was a question of dignity, I suppose, as was his insistence on having "wheels".
Yet Saatchi's enthusiasm has always counted for something, as has his insistence on going his own way.
His idea that works of art are culturally emergent but physically embodied entities is Deweyan in spirit, as is his insistence on a robust relativist theory of interpretation.
