Word: assertional
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...Congress). They sense a real challenge to their way of thinking, and do not share the President's conviction that the country is behind him. Rather, they think the country shares their feeling that a thoughtless and improvident Administration is attacking their fundamental tenets. Thus they feel they must assert them all the more strongly...
...Cantilevered Terrace consists of conversation to the extent that a water melon consists of water, but the play's poetic juices run far too purple. The drama is static, but often as electricity is static. None too likable, the characters assert their right to respect as well as humiliation. As a failure, Terrace exerts more magnetic pull on a playgoer than some playwrights' successes...
Although Harvard's mission is now "world-wide," wrote Pusey, "this is not to question Harvard's essential rootage in this nation. . . . While some of our unimaginative, vituperative detractors maintain that because we are 'capitalist' we are therefore inevitably 'imperialist,' I would assert from my recent experience that our sense of 'mission' springs rather from a feeling of responsibility and generous interest in world order; and toward this end, in the development of mutual trust and the encouragement of human liberty and well being. We are seriously devoted to the advance and development of emerging regions of the world...
Last night's joint Christmas Concert of the Harvard Glee Club, Radcliffe Choral Society and Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra was, let me assert immediately and axiomatically, the best concert any of the three groups have given here in the past, say, three years. Or say four years. I don't care...
Filmed on a Sunday afternoon in April, the day of a scheduled protest, the documentary shows folksingers staging a sit-down to assert their right to sing in Washington Square. The City Park Commissioner and the police met the demonstrators and broke up the crowd, arresting those who refused to leave...