Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stated briefly, reaction to the political challenge has divided undergraduates into two distinct groups: Blissful Indifference, and Ineffective Desperation. No one takes the latter group very seriously. In response to the conservative plea, most students assert simply that "you can't turn back the clock"; in reply to the radical demand, the majority insist that it is dangerous to "upset the applecart." This leaves the potent majority of the Center, the drifting "moderates...
...course, the prevailing state of Blissful Indifference is not entirely the student's fault. Finding himself confronted with intellectual dilemma, he can either assert without adequate knowledge, or remain silent and ineffective. In addition to appearing the lesser of these two evils, silence is also easier...
...wrong." He boldly pitched his argument to the widespread French anxiety, rarely expressed publicly, about what happens after President de Gaulle leaves the scene. "To guarantee the future of democracy in France," at a time when Parliament itself is discredited in the public mind, Parliament must not assert its "harassing" power against the government. Added Debre: "My words are not dictated by a taste for theory but by the memory of the distortion of parliamentary methods that since 1872 has made the state its first victim. Democracy is a matter of great patience. It may be amusing to revise...
...Recent reports assert that a certain wetting agent now used by wearers of contact lenses in their cleaning and wearing is harmful," Dr. Contratto stated. "Anyone in the University who wears contact lenses is advised to get in touch with his own ophthalmologist or with Health Service doctors as soon as possible...
Naturally, this need increases as the world becomes more complicated. In a recent full-scale reevaluation of ROTC, two Dartmouth professors assert that with advancing technology, the concept of the trained reserve, hastily mobilized, citizen army is outmoded; the only realistic alternative now is a professional armed force in being, obviously necessitating good officers. Coupled with Professor Samuel Huntington's idea of officership as a profession, a policy of high-calibre training for college men to make them able officers becomes a necessity...