Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hippies have hit upon a stupid, inescapable, infuriating Truth when they assert their right to your money. That may be how you tell the Harvard-Radcliffe neo-hippies in their equally savage, equally expensive, clothing from the real hippies. Certainly none of us churning past text-books and drifting through exams, really believes that a man's wealth...
...durable. As practiced by Joan Miro, André Masson, Max Ernst and Roberto Matta, automatism relied on the unconscious to direct the pen, pencil, brush or tube of glue. "Rather than setting out to paint something," said Miró, "I begin, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself." Landscape with Rooster, one of a dozen outsize, uninhibited Mirós on display, illustrates the antic, fanciful contours that result...
...applies to juveniles in federal courts. They also objected on the basis that the law involves a "rock or whirlpool" choice. "Where a reward is held out to an individual for the waiver of a constitutional right," wrote Judge Harold Tyler, "or a greater threat posed for choosing to assert it, any waiver may be said to have been extracted in an impermissible manner." The judges ruled unconstitutional that part of the act that imposes a "Hobson's choice." Instead, the boy may choose to be treated as a juvenile, and may have a jury trial...
...story is that when she entered the household, Ken sought to assert his domination by constantly using his 6 ft. 8 in. to place things out of her reach. Emily used her lack of height to place his toilet articles, etc., out of his reach. The standoff quickly developed into mutual admiration and respect, and Emily has long remained an indispensable member of the family...
...remarks, however, Pusey asserted a view the CRIMSON has quarreled with twice in the past month. Speaking on whether Harvard should allow unlimited television coverage of events here, he said "to use technology to assert a point of view is contrary to the principles of the University." This disposition to avoid marginally associating the University with a controversial view was what we found objectionable in the decision of Pusey and the Corporation not to let the Harvard University Press publish J. D. Watson's The Double Helix. And we earlier objected to the University's refusal to allow WGBH...