Word: assertional
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...potential cannot convincingly be made to prove only what is plausible, that they inevitably prove too much, vesting rights in say, unfertilized ova. And it is striking that where the capacity for rationality is definitely lost, as in the hopelessly brain-damaged individual there are very few who would assert the full range of human rights. An interesting case is a temporarily unconscious person, a person asleep. An argument can readily be made to show why he has the same rights as a fully conscious person. After all, all fully conscious persons must sleep regularly and often...
...instinctive: uncensored desire. Me Tarzan, you Raphael. Dubuffet's art speaks directly to anyone who wants to abolish the humanist past-that area of art that insists that man is the flower of the universe and can, by force and subtlety of intellect, control it. His images assert the opposite: a nude becomes a lump of hairy pink clay with a pinhead, swagging numbles and a skin so gouged by fissures, cracks and graffiti that it is on the verge of turning into a landscape. The hierarchy of human to animal to vegetable to mineral is abolished; the popeyed...
Faculty hiring policy needs a thorough examination. And the Commission, by taking on the Economics Department investigation, can assert itself as an effective channel for complaints about important University policies...
...that resolution in 1971. Indeed, after the "incursion" of 1970, Congress specifically barred the use of U.S. combat forces in Cambodia. The final justification-that U.S. air raids defended American troops in Viet Nam-vanished when the last U.S. forces left Viet Nam two weeks ago. "Does the President assert-as kings of old -that as Commander in Chief he can order American forces anywhere for any purpose that suits him?" Senator J. William Fulbright demanded...
Those who argue against a predominantly medical approach to the problem of heroin addiction, such as exists in Britain today, assert that it would lead to an explosive increase in the number of addicts. They erroneously point to the British experience for supporting evidence. The fact of the matter is that since 1969, when proper controls for dispensing heroin were instituted, there has been no such increase in the number of addicts in England...