Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nature" can more justly be equated with out sense, vauge enough when it is stated abstractly, of the way things are. Against this stock reality made up of ordinary routine, gesture, and response, all carried by the expected rhythm of a voice, are placed those moments when particular dreams assert themselves in an attempt to transform nature...
...insists that it does not have to be a Utopian hope. The demand for ministers exceeds the supply, and the churches have no choice but to accept the kind of clergyman that the divinity schools choose to turn out. "This means that theological seminaries, if they can assert even a modicum of independence vis-a-vis the organization, have much leeway for doing at least some of the things that their Christian reason advocates they should...
...ordered world of young womanhood hopefully achieved in the junior and senior years." We wonder about the alchemy in the Radcliffe environment that magically transforms confused adolescents into mature young women at the completion of sixteen half courses. We are more dubious that any group has a right to assert its own maturity while doubting that of others. In the informal RGA poll being conducted today on the subject of rule changes, each student should reply according to her confidence in herself, and not according to possible deleterious effects on her fellows of this opportunity for responsible social decision. None...
...that they saw behind Goldberg's seemingly innocent words another step in the Kennedy Administration's tendency to move into disputes (tugboats, airline flight engineers, steel) and restrict the negotiators' range of choice. Their fear is that the national interest "guidelines" that Goldberg is prepared to assert could amount to Government dictation of terms...
Clearly, the gap between the two sides was narrower than the one that led to 1959's bitter, 116-day strike. Then why the recess after only three weeks' bargaining? Sighed one top Administration economist: "Both sides wanted to assert their independence and get out from under Government pressure." Both steel labor and management apparently felt that the Administration's energetic tactics had saddled them, in the public eye, with the obligation to hammer out a noninflationary deal or take the consequences...