Word: assertional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most extraordinary burdens under which American education labors is psychological-namely, the assumption that reform is impossible unless failure is admitted. Thus one who speaks of the great achievements of the past is immediately labeled as one who does not want change. Only those who are ready to assert that all the labor and energy, all the sacrifice and skill, all the character and brains that have been poured into the educational enterprise have resulted in failure are really progressive and ready for new developments. In point of fact the precise reverse is true. Reform proceeds best by capitalizing upon...
Anti-administration arguments, expected today on the House floor, will assert that the bill paves the way to universal military training. Thus far, UMT has never been able to proceed past debate. Lobby groups, including the National Council Against Conscription and the Methodist Church have been waging write-in battles with the Administration for months...
...search for it made the last part of his voyage the loneliest part of all. Albert Einstein, who often said he could not accept the doctrine of immortality of the soul, traveled the rim of mystery and at times, he admitted, it made him feel close to God. "I assert," he once said, "that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force . . . My religion consists of a humble admiration for the illimitable superior spirit who reveals Himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds...
...issues of loyalty and security, according to O'Brian, have been seized by unscrupulous politicians and used as political weapons. "But when courageous and outspoken leaders appear, a sense of fair play will assert its power among our people," he continued...
...vital differences between Davenport and others who have had similar insights. Dissatisfaction with military and economic weapons does not lead him to conclude that such weapons should be abandoned: "Without them the entire free world would be exposed." Distrust of the faith in progress does not lead him to assert that it should be discarded, for it has "become vital to the health-indeed to the survival-of modern civilization . . . In terms of human destiny we are committed to the optimistic tradition." It is America's special task-"of truly overwhelming proportions"-to find its own synthesis between faith...