Word: assertional
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...common this disregard for the sovereignty of national boundaries, with continents no different from campuses. Ideology, free-world ideology or revolutionary, sweeps away the restraints of diplomacy. The delineation of the world into good guys and bad guys was lethal in the Vietnam episode to those diplomats trying to assert themselves over military bureaucrats and national security analysts...
...market has become more explicit and more selective. The owner of one of the street's nameless bookstores (titles and literary allusions are for Greenwich Village) observes that two years ago customers paid little attention to the aesthetic quality of models. Now a Playmate standard has begun to assert itself in exotic literature. Most of the customers are men, with the big rush arriving just after business hours when homeward-bound commuters and tourists beginning a night on the town descend on the area. Those women who do come in are easily placed in one of two categories...
...Hitler's designs, form follows function as surely as in any Corbusier or Gropius. The function had nothing to do with human needs. It was simply to intimidate the people, and to assert the state-visual symbols as purposeful as Goebbels' radio broadcasts. No Berliner could look anywhere in his city, Hitler hoped, without seeing that overpowering dome, those relentless colonnades...
Sihanouk sharply criticized the U.S. for supporting Lon Nol's regime. "The United States has valid reasons certainly for defending itself against the propagation of Communism in Asia and most particularly in Southeast Asia," declared Sihanouk. "But it would be pure hypocrisy to assert that the United States is defending the highest interests of the Indochinese people in preventing at all costs regimes like those of Lon Nol and of Nguyen Cao Ky from falling to Communism, using for that purpose bombs and napalm and an apocalyptic destruction of the countries and peoples concerned...
...under direct orders to desegregate. No one is certain just how they will react as Dixie's school bells signal the start of the new academic year, which in some cases will be next week. But last week President Richard Nixon dramatically flew into the South to assert the prestige and weight of his office in behalf of cooperative acceptance of the law of the land. "The highest court has spoken," he told his Southern audience, and it is "the responsibility of the President to uphold...