Word: asserting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They have a tendency to assert that people don't live as well as they used to, or as carefully as they used to, or as high as they used to. They instinctively retreat to the past for their heroes. The next generation, the storytellers' audience, is left to figure out which characters are worth emulating, which adventures are worth repeating, and which are best dismissed as the folly of another time. The storytellers can't know what will be of use; it is not theirs to act upon the lessons their history offers...
...through ideal form. So the Bauhaus-constructivist line meant little to them. Surrealism, however, was more congenial. To begin with, it was an art of subject matter; and although platoons of later critics would discuss abstract expressionism in purely formalist terms, the painters themselves were obsessed by content. "We assert," said Mark Rothko, "that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless." His "we" included Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, William Baziotes, Theodores Stamos and, in greater or lesser degrees, all the abstract expressionists with the possible exception of de Kooning...
Steiger and his allies assert that high capital gains taxes hit the economy precisely where it is most vulnerable. They steer investors away from innovative, high-risk ventures and push people to buy such securities as bonds of mature companies, which yield a steady, safe return. That return is taxed at ordinary-income rates, to be sure, but then capital gains rates are no longer low enough to compensate investors for extra risk. Supporters of Steiger argue persuasively that cutting capital gains rates would raise federal revenues rather than reduce them. People would sell assets they have been salting away...
...around him, parliament and the press keep rebuffing him. As he moves ahead, he has to prove that each single step of his is well-founded and absolutely flawless. Actually an outstanding and particularly gifted person who has unusual and unexpected initiatives in mind hardly gets a chance to assert himself; from the very beginning, dozens of traps will be set out for him. Thus mediocrity triumphs with the excuse of restrictions imposed by democracy...
...long-range implications of such plans are enormous. Lawyers will be used for "preventive care" to avoid disputes or help resolve them outside the courtroom. Litigation may well increase?but only, says A.B.A. Consultant Philip Murphy, "because individuals with rights assert them rather than sleep on them." If most citizens are educated about their rights and have private counsel to help them, predict Werner Pfennigstorf and Spencer Kimball of the American Bar Foundation, there will be "dramatic changes in the social fabric...