Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
There are those who neither rebel nor assert egos but are consumed by a vision, like Buddha, Pascal, St. Joan, Mary Baker Eddy. There are the converts who see a sudden or a slow light for which they surrender their past, like St. Paul or Mary Magdalene or Cardinal Newman. There are those who are willing to defy the class or service to which they belong, like Savonarola or Franklin D. Roosevelt or Billy Mitchell, and those who fulfill their individuality in the sometimes more difficult discipline of submission...
There are those, like Moliere, Cervantes, Twain and Thurber, who assert their position against the world humorously?for everyone can laugh, but only individuals have humor. There are the explorers, discoverers and obsessive questioners; their individuality is not necessarily greater because they chose to die, like Socrates, or smaller because they saved their necks, like Galileo. There are the obscure men who, by an accident of history, are forced to develop individuality or at least strength, like Emperor Claudius and Harry Truman. There are, above all, the unremembered and unknown individuals who take their stand and suffer their small martyrdoms...
...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...