Word: assertional
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Religious Elements. Ultimately, the individual can see himself only in the eyes of others?and can see himself great or free only in the reflection of the eye of God. All past attempts to assert the worth of the individual without measuring him against a higher cause have failed, have in the end only diminished him. Nietzsche's rhapsodic worship of man's will, of which Hitler was an absurd and gruesome caricature, fits no more into the true Western tradition than does the soul's meek expectation of nirvana or the patient Russian submission to worldly tyranny...
...Defense. Fulbright had stated in the beginning of his speech the reason why he felt Atlantic defense cooperation to be essential. He returned to the subject to assert that worry over control of nuclear arms was far less important than the development of a "solid consensus on nuclear strategy. "He said that unified strategy planning was "politically feasible," and could be achieved with only a small modification of the NATO Council...
...head of eight campuses and some 50,000 students, Kerr is willing to compromise only so far. He appears more than ready to assert a very sharp rebuff to anyone who threatens University prerogatives...
...Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was not mincing words. "The Negro citizen," he said, "does not subscribe to violence as a method of securing his rights. But he has come to the point where he is not afraid of violence. He no longer shrinks back. He will assert himself, and if violence comes, so be it." Since Wilkins' sympathies are well known, his speech was not entirely surprising. Much more remarkable was the burst of applause he got from his audience-composed of 127 white police officers, most of them from the segregated South...
...Chronicler Lawrence Lipton needled the Kennedys as a "press-made image of America's royal family." That went nowhere, man, so Author Aldous Huxley, 68, posed a quaint 20th century dilemma: "What should poets do about nightingales"-now that ornithologists have shown that the nightingale sings mainly to assert that he has "staked out his territory"? This seemed strictly for the birds, which left Movie Actor Jack Lemmon, 38, to bring everyone back to earth with a few well-chosen words on Los Angeles architecture: "The fact is, 80 to 90% of it is terrible...