Word: assertional
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...wrong to assert that the celebrated breach between Sartre and Camus arose from Sartre's presumed refusal to publish a report on Stalin's concentration camps. If Mr. Jago had bothered to consult the sources, he would have discovered that Sartre had in fact published in Les Temps Modernes in 1947--long before his break with Camus--a report revealing the existence and nature of forced labor camps in the Soviet Union. Thereafter, in editorials, articles and notes--also in Les Temps Modernes--he never ceased to take a stand against the camps. He was "horrified," "enraged," even "obsessed...
...Jackson still stands at only 5% in the national polls, but in the last Quayle poll, taken in Florida in late December, he rose from 6% to 12%, only seven points behind Muskie (though the front runner, George Wallace, had a commanding 29% in the splintered field). Jackson men assert that their candidate continues to gain...
...President, has demanded an investigation. Manhattan District Attorney Frank Hogan acknowledged that he was examining the testimony for possible discrepancies. Lindsay struck back at the "petty, carping, narrow little men" who were attacking him. It was really a case, he said, of people objecting to his effort to assert civilian control over the police-which hardly explains why he was so tardy in exercising control when he got word of corruption in the department...
Even before man had scientific facts to back his convictions, he was confident about the existence of extraterrestrial life. "To consider the earth as the only populated world in infinite space," said the 4th century B.C. Epicurean Philosopher Metrodoros, "is as absurd as to assert that in an entire field sown with millet only one grain will grow...
...oppressor's power, "Let us carry out reforms before the people carry out a revolution." But people do not live their lives on polar ends of abstract dialectics, and to spit in the palm of an outstretched, helping hand in the name of the future revolution is to arrogantly assert one's own self-righteousness and to deny the existence of Daniel Ellsberg's. Freire's own experience shows some of the problems of always positing oneself in absolute contradiction to the ruling class: once a government agrees to let Freire establish his educational programs, those educational programs by definition...