Word: assertional
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...clinics" in slum neighborhoods, where volunteer attorneys would offer their services to the people. While the bar is not yet convinced that it ought to rewrite its code of ethics, the A.B.A. did agree that "the poor must not only be educated to their legal rights, but stimulated to assert them...
...organized to affirm, to assert in ways that are "refreshingly radical," and to interrogate further a group of cultural and historical aspirations which we believe we share. This, in a world and a country whose affairs are as confused as ours, is an arduous, conflicted, and often painful task. The rational task is made all the more difficult because, when we dare to think that we might be coming to terms with others as human beings, we discover that basic terms of our discussion--the "racial" definitions that have brought us thus far through history--themselves divide us emotionally into...
...faith, and that what the committee did was to add to the totality of what the church believes. Scriptural criticism has made it clear that the Bible is not inerrant in all factual details. Dowey argued that to call the Bible "the normative witness," rather than infallible, is to assert its power as "the norm or authority over all other witness," but he, also conceded, after hearing strong conservative criticism, that some better word might have to be found...
Another Fidel? Thus, late last week, the Dominican Republic got a loyalist government that could assert its right to govern against the claims of the so-called "constitutionalist" government of Rebel Colonel Francisco Caamaño Deñó, 32, the officer who triggered the revolt on April 24. Caamaño's political background is murky. He is quarrelsome, opportunistic, a plotter who, in the words of one U.S. official, "has the potential of becoming another Fidel Castro." His father, Lieut. General Fausto Caamaño, was boss of Trujillo's secret police, took a leading part...
Winnie, increasingly immobile (in the second act she is buried up to her neck) and denied the escape of death, is forced to assert her existence through Willie and her "things" a bag, a comb, a toothbrush, a revolver. The smallest objects become signs of life, and assume a life of their own. The parasol may burn up, the glasses may be smashed, but Winnie knows that they will mysteriously return, unharmed, to sustain her endless day, and she cries with appropriately endless irony, "That is what I find so wonderful, the way things...(voice breaks, head down)...things...