Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Southern moderates "must organize and assert their views if we are to continue a nation under laws," Herbert H. Browne, Jr. 3L said last night. Browne's plea for a moderate approach to the integration problem came at a meeting of the Dunster House Forum...
Browne, himself a Southerner, stated that "there is a much larger feeling of compliance with the law" in the South than many people realize. However, he pointed out that those holding moderate views are subjected to "economic, social, and physical" pressures. This situation, he said, "calls for courage to assert that compliance with the laws must be upheld...
Always one of the most important courses in any educational system is history, influencing our views of people and institutions through presentation of their developments. In the communist system all history is explained by Marx's assertion that "the history of society is the history of class struggles." Rich and poor constantly clash, one defending what the other is seeking, so the communists assert, and they conveniently rewrite all of history to support this thesis...
...outrageous menagerie of nitpickers and by his own absence of ambition. But his happy inconsequence irritates a blue-eyed, butterfat young stenographer and she dangles herself in front of Humphrey like a hunk of process cheese. Mouse that he is, he leaps for the bait and begins to assert himself around his office. Abruptly, he is buried under freshly picked nits.' "Kay," he whispers, "you've got the wrong man. I can't change the world." Her reply: "You can change your life, Humph, you can show them all that a civil servant isn't necessarily...
...shocked to see you assert [June 24] that Kemal Ataturk "publicly described Islam as 'this theology of an immoral Arab.' " Ataturk never made such a statement-publicly or privately. Two biographies, which you must have used as your source material, can in no way be considered concrete, authoritative evidence. Ataturk achieved many great reforms, among which was the secularization of the Turkish state, but he never said, or even implied, that this separation of the state from religion was in favor of atheism or irreverence for Islam. Ataturk personally believed in the teachings of Islam...