Word: assertional
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Since animal society is essentially hierarchal, says Hediger, humans who face dangerous creatures in their cages should assume a super-alpha status-in other words, a rank above that of the topmost animal. If he fails to assert such authority, the zookeeper risks finding the animals as impudent, mischievous and eager to take advantage of any sign of weakness as school children with an unsure and inexperienced teacher. And the animals' pranks, Hediger adds dryly, can produce far more painful consequences...
THEIR explanation does Herbert Marcuse proud. The purpose of the demonstrating minority was not to assert their own will over the majority's opinion, but rather to change the majority's "consciousness" so they would agree with the minority's view. The demonstrators' conception of the university is similar to their radical critique of American society: they claim that both are directed in the interests of a powerful economic-political coalition. Through increasingly subtle methods of acculturation, the powerful interest group has asserted its own will on the majority. The majority have been manipulated to misconstrue their own interest...
...Bitter Aftertaste," the title of TIME'S gloss on student unrest in Germany [April 26], describes what at least one German conservative had in his mouth after reading it. You assert that the students had "found neither violence so romantic nor West German society so weak as they had imagined." What evidence is there that they had imagined violence to be romantic-a few months after one of them had been shot in Berlin? I see diverse ingredients in our students' attitude toward violence. Of romanticism I see no trace. Also: Is society's strength measured...
...hippies have hit upon a stupid, inescapable, infuriating Truth when they assert their right to your money. That may be how you tell the Harvard-Radcliffe neo-hippies in their equally savage, equally expensive, clothing from the real hippies. Certainly none of us churning past text-books and drifting through exams, really believes that a man's wealth...
...durable. As practiced by Joan Miro, André Masson, Max Ernst and Roberto Matta, automatism relied on the unconscious to direct the pen, pencil, brush or tube of glue. "Rather than setting out to paint something," said Miró, "I begin, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself." Landscape with Rooster, one of a dozen outsize, uninhibited Mirós on display, illustrates the antic, fanciful contours that result...