Word: assertively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...question is not whether Council members have the right to express their own opinions when representing Harvard outside of Cambridge: obviously they do. But the fact remains that when they assert their beliefs too vigorously, their views are likely to be quoted and widely disseminated, breeding distrust and resentment among their constituencies in Cambridge, and misrepresenting the Council as an organization...
...best chapter in this group is the one on Dickens. Comparing Fagin to all the other Jew-villains in English literature, Rosenberg notes the vital difference: "Marlowe's and Shakespeare's Jews assert themselves actively against their persecution and regard it as a source of terror. The point is that none of them can be sensibly appreciated without an awareness of the restrictions which prevent them from participating fully in the social world. There comes a point at which Barabas, the professional poisoner, ceases to be a satanic figure and can lecture Ferneze on the conditions of injustice without immediately...
...deep end when we think that the scientists alone hold the whole world in their hands. This you apparently do when you assert, "Statesmen, savants, builders and even priests are their servants." I am inclined to believe that scientists themselves would be among the first to repudiate such Olympian authority. For the great pervading thought in the sciences, both natural and social, tells us that we should all be servants of truth-seeking and of one another...
...like to increase trade-and not simply because the prospect of a slice of the former $545 million-a-year U.S.-Cuba trade looked irresistible. A tide of nationalism and of disenchantment with U.S. leadership is running in Canada. Hardly a day goes by without calls for Canada to assert its own leadership and go its own self-interested way. Last week Prime Minister Diefenbaker rose in the House of Commons to explain Ottawa's official position. Said he: "We respect the views of other nations in their relations with Cuba just as we expect that they respect...
...have a great Irish one. The Phoenix Theater's production lacks more than Irishness; it is not dramatic or revealing or resonant enough. The play does stir sleepily all evening, though it takes scenes of brawling to bring it really to life, or the great final curtain to assert its piercing ironic force...