Word: assertiveness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Richard Nixon will face-and win-a conflict with "a father-figure, some person of authority." Mao Tse-tung is warned to "beware of unleashing vital forces you might have trouble controlling." After an unsuccessful brush with passion, Gamal Abdel Nasser will "see a dream come true. You will assert yourself, push forward and conquer." No word on Israel's Golda Meir...
...Attack! A pin worn by NYA members bears the symbol of mathematical inequality, an equals sign with a slash mark across it. The teaching of eugenics, NYA authors feel, will help students learn of white supremacy; and that recognition, their reasoning goes, will give whites the will power to assert their superiority...
...they began to assert themselves. They were "discovered" first by politicians and the press, and then they started to discover themselves. In the Administration's voices?especially in the Vice President's and the Attorney General's?in the achievements and the character of the astronauts, in a murmurous and pervasive discontent, they sought to reclaim their culture. It was their interpretation of patriotism that bought Richard Nixon the time to pursue a gradual withdrawal from the war. By their silent but newly felt presence, they influenced the mood of government and the course of legislation, and thus began...