Word: assertional
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...literary critic of broad erudition that Trilling achieved his greatest renown. (Notable essay collections: The Liberal Imagination, 1950; The Opposing Self, 1955.) In studies ranging from Jane Austen to Tolstoy to Orwell to Freud, he sketched a view of man struggling to assert himself against the forces of his society. In Beyond Culture: Essays on Literature and Learning (1965), Trilling argued that "the primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture in the environmental sense and to permit him to stand beyond it in an autonomy of perception and judgment...
...leaders are particularly interested in persuading Ford to avoid any actions that might slow down the U.S. economy, such as letting New York City go bankrupt, cutting Government spending or allowing interest rates to rise. Their entreaties will get a sympathetic hearing from Ford, but nothing else. Administration policymakers assert that they cannot make critical economic and political decisions solely to help other nations; they must above all be careful not to speed up inflation...
HARVARD-PENN--A Jack Wixted-less Penn is not an awesome opponent. And even if he plays, Harvard will assert the championship material of which it is made. Hopefully. Harvard 23, Penn...
...Lang, Alison Lurie has written novels about middle America. No one picked up on V.R. Lang's work until her husband and Lurie decided to collect a few poems and plays. Lurie, in particular, seems to feel that death cheated Lang out of a chance that she deserved to assert herself. Lang used to like Gauguin's remark that "Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge." But these pieces won't attract enough attention to retaliate for the author's shoddy treatment...
...biggest drawbacks to educational reform, the committee members assert, were the faculty's reluctance to change and its growing awareness that the school would not have the funds to carry out the major recommendations of the report. Worse, with the debate over the report's appendix came the understanding that not only could things not change for the better but that the status quo would have to be cut back and the number of faculty reduced. "The fact that Dahl didn't have the price tag for his recommendation injured us," Hoskins says. "They told us originally that we shouldn...