Word: asserts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plunged into a financial crisis, but he retains considerable clout as chairman of the supervisory board and head of the Krupp Foundation, which holds all the firm's shares and supports scientific and cultural projects. Even so, Krackow, who gets along well with Beitz, can be expected to assert himself as boss and insist that the company will undertake only financially sound ventures...
Weil is hardly the first thinker to assert the power of the mind to heal and develop itself: Emerson said as much in "Self-Reliance" in 1841. But Weil's quiet indictment of a society ruled by rationalism and psychological materialism is unique, because it comes from a true child of this society. Moreover, he sees evidence that "we have passed the peak of our rational intellecutal period." The Natural Mind, valuable for its optimism alone, is an important examination of the potential of the mind for finding its own strength and security within...
Diminishing family influence has also shaken up the rules. The disillusionment of many youths with Viet Nam, pollution and corruption has sexual side effects, say Simon and Gagnon. It reinforces the idea of the older generation's moral inferiority. In fact, the two sociologists assert, many young people begin sexual activity in part as a "personal vendetta" against their parents. Nor does the older generation have a very good record of marital stability. Since
Israel's charge against Lebanon was only partly fair. True, the P.F.L.P. operates in Beirut. The three Japanese terrorists were wearing Lebanese-made clothes, according to the Israelis, who also assert-despite P.F.L.P. denials-that the three had been trained in Lebanon. Yet Lebanon, a half-Christian, half-Moslem country and temporary home for 300,000 Palestinians, could contain the terrorists only at grave risk to its own fragile unity. Every time the government has tried to do so, a political crisis has resulted. Lebanon is the handiest target for Israel, but the P.F.L.P. also has headquarters in Paris...
...Brodie's Report, "I believe I have found my own voice". A strange remark, for the author of a fiction which challenges the very premises of individual identity or ontological certainty. Borges goes on to describe his stories--"To use the term in vogue today"--as "realistic", and to assert that they "follow all the conventions of that school". By now, we might guess that the sly master of fiction is pulling our leg. It would not be unlike Borges to lead us up another erudite blind alley, casting a shade of doubt on his own self-explanation...