Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Zeligs' terms, the Communist Party -- with its potential, real and imagined, for secrecy and excitement--was the most prominent brother-figure in Chambers' life. He attached himself to an institutional embodiment of strength and masculinity, then broke with it in a dramatic attempt to assert these same qualities within himself...
...wherefore. Y admits to himself that he sought out the Henhouse; that he is responsible for allowing it to become a prison; that when he visualized himself as another Hen, what he really wanted was to remain a part of the system. Finally, he realizes that before he can assert his autonomy, he must relinquish the whole institutional Henhouse world and reject the paternalistic hand of psychiatry, which first helped him but now threatens to smother him. Y's journey has taken him from neurotic dependency and rebellion to a point where he can think...
Unfortunately though, Opus is a mixed bag. Too often the editors have succumbed to the pedestrian urge to assert their vitality. They have avoided the embarrassment of a here-we-are introduction by having no introduction at all. But they celebrate themselves in the approved modern manner: by celebrating copulation...
Away from the meets, lightweights develop a sense of camaraderie. They naturally practice together, and together they assert their importance to bulkier teammates in higher ranges...
...Buckley may be right in claiming that in some ways his philosophy is less racist than that of New York liberals. But the liberals are also right--and in a more important sense--when they assert, to Buckley's avowed astonishment, that he appeals to racist impulses on the part of the voters...