Word: assertional
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Apart from making sex hideous and inhuman, the new pornographers also make it hopelessly dull. They should have learned from Sade, who used sex to assert the impossible-the totally unlimited freedom of man-and pushed the concept into insanity. Along the way Sade desperately tried to force his imagination beyond human limits by inventing inhuman horrors, but he only managed to make his compilation shatteringly dreary. Toward the end of his 120 Days of Sodom he was no longer really writing, but simply setting down long lists of neatly numbered and tersely outlined enormities-the effect being ludicrous...
...Generation. Fact is, 55% of West Germany's population today were under 25 years of age on V-E day, and the new generation hardly feels responsible for the sins of its elders. What does concern Germans of all ages is an increasing desire to assert a national identity, hardly a novel emotion. Polls show that reunification is a burning question for a majority of West Germans. Obviously, the lack of real nationhood could give the spark of opportunity to precisely the kind of German ultranationalism that the world learned to dread in two world wars...
...report did not, as you assert, say that the U.S. has the right and the duty to intervene in Vietnam. It said that the U.S. "would have the right, if not the obligation, to support the rights of the minority" if the Viet Cong attempted to impose a totalitarian government. While this may have been poor phrasing, it cannot possibly be interpreted, except by the CRIMSON, as stating that we have a duty to intervene...
Going to jail is, for the African, as for the American Negro, a way to assert his identity. Another way is to turn to journalism, a path shown to Nakasa by his father, a compositor and free lance newspaperman in Durban on South Africa's East Coast...
These commentators assert that the U.S. is facing a subtle, fiercely imperialistic adversary in the Communist Chinese. The assertion is not without truth. Although this view ignores the fact that Vietnamese peasants, and not Chinese, oppose the U.S. in Vietnam, it clarifies the fact that China stands behind this whole movement to sweep the West off the peninsula. There is a Chinese imperialism, just as real as American imperialism, that would gain from U.S. withdrawal...