Word: assertiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second week in a row the pass receiving was good. Pat McInally was, well, Pat McInally--seven receptions, 74 yards, and three TDs. A pleasant surprise was the play of Tom McDermott at tight end. If McDermott begins to assert himself he'll take a lot of pressure off McInally and help the offense immensely...
...meanwhile, notices that Vadim's pseudonym "V. Irisin" sounds a lot like "Sirin," the pen name of one Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, an émigré Russian of illustrious but not aristocratic background who wrote in Berlin, not Paris, after the revolution. This Sirin, Nabokov has been heard to assert, is a writer to be ranked with Pushkin, Tolstoy and Gogol, and well above Dostoyevsky...
...Americans do not assert their fundamental rights and insist on full disclosure of all material relevant to Watergate, they will have relinquished a right inherent in our concept of democracy. Accountability is implicit in the public's contract with any elected or appointed official. The public's right to know cannot be abridged-but it can be given up, if that's the way people want it. If the Watergate investigation is not allowed to continue to a final conclusion of complete disclosure, the scandal and its divisiveness will remain with us as long as we live...
...members harbor a stern faith in equality; they say they are democratic, and in meetings they fiercely assert the right of every member to speak his or her piece without "getting trampled on," as Allen says. D-SOC members do not seem so obsessed with this purist notion, perhaps because they have already made the concession to work within the system...
...mass of rubble deposited by Ice Age glaciers from the mainland and its ravages--a distance too short to protect against commercialism, but long enough so that many might think the Island is miraculously immune. The Vineyard stands on its own, it seems, and the assured independence most Islanders assert was reflected in a famous headline a few years ago, when poor weather scuttled the regular ferry sailings. "Sound Fogged In," observed the Vineyard Gazette, "Mainland...