Word: assertive
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...your article "New but Not Necessarily Improved" [ESSAY, July 22], you assert that "ballpoint pens are better than fountain pens, and cheaper too." Do you not realize that a man is his handwriting, and his handwriting is his pen? The fountain pen is beaux arts, bold strokes, bound leather, polished brass and character. The ballpoint is Bauhaus, thin waterlines, paperbacks, plastics and personality. The fountain pen is John Ruskin; the ball point, Madonna. A man with a fountain pen in hand holds in the secret places of his heart starched cuffs and high collars, a company with "transcontinental...
...common enough to assert that Mozart was a child of the Enlightenment or that Verdi was much involved with nationalist politics, but is it possible to illuminate such assertions in terms of their music? Or, more interesting, to illuminate their music in terms of their ideas...
Through it all, Johnson’s thesis is clear: lonely, brave commonfolk increasingly assert their principles in the face of an uncompromising, over-bureaucratic, callous Communist government...
...state’s capital. The students were undocumented immigrants. They have less political power than almost any other group in America. They cannot vote. Their parents cannot vote. Most of them don’t even have neighbors or relatives who can vote. In attempting to assert their right to higher education, the students were risking harassment or even deportation. But they came to Santa Fe to tell the state’s legislators their stories and to ask for a chance to earn a college education...
...result of this disrespect is the devaluation of lives of people like Terri Schiavo. In the Schiavo case and others like it, non-disabled decision makers assert that the disabled person should die because he or she—ordinarily a person who had little or no experience with disability before acquiring one—“would not want to live like this.” In the Schiavo case, the family is forced to argue that Terri should be kept alive because she might “get better”—that is, might...