Word: assertional
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...sturdy burghers of Copenhagen, are the foundation of existentialism. Today, a number of Roman Catholic intellectuals believe that a little-known thinker of commensurate stature has been patiently laying some philosophical land mines for the future. He is Canadian Jesuit Bernard Joseph Francis Lonergan, 60, whose followers assert that history may reckon him a mind to rank with Aquinas and Newman...
Medical scientists cannot even agree on the time when death technically occurs. Is it when breathing stops? Or the heart? Or when brain waves cease? Psychologists and psychiatrists assert that fear of death is universal, but disagree about its true nature. Freud compared it with fears of castration. Others believe that patients fear dying itself less than their own helplessness and uselessness in the process. Some believe the fear of death is the instinctual root of all other fears...
What Is He Leaving? A major factor in all attitudes toward death is religious belief-or lack of it-in life hereafter. Some clergymen assert that such a belief is all that is needed to take the sting out of death. Others, like San Francisco's Rabbi Alvin I. Fine are more mod erate. "The Judaeo-Christian tradition," says he, "offers a way of looking at death. Religious belief and understanding are definitely helpful in facing death." Psychiatrists, who tend to be agnostics, complain that the clerical attitude generally puts too much emphasis on where a person is going...
...birth to his personality: one brother has a minute plan for decorating the room, the other wants to build a shed out back, and the bum is always about to go down to Sidcup to get the papers that prove who he is. The bum feels called upon to assert his sanity by bursting into prideful indignation at vaguely appropriate moments. His finicky concern about his shoes, especially, reminds one of the bums in Waiting for Godot. He can't remember his birthday...
...courses deal. Indeed, a Gen Ed course, by its very nature, should be more careful and detailed in its presentation of material than a departmental course. It should try to provide insights into its material and the way in which the scholar deals with it. It is ridiculous to assert that the student is benefited more by a shallow introduction to many fields, none of which he is likely to pursue farther, rather than a solid understanding of the basic content of a few fields that interest...