Word: reasserted
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...this is done with such compression and compassion that the reader continues to identify with Richard even after ambiguous clues bring his reliability as a witness into doubt. When life with Meg drifts too much toward surrealism and subjectivity, Richard's vignettes of life in the library help reassert his point of view. He composes provocative first sentences to imaginary short stories ("On the night of the blackout, Liz and Mike made love but not to each other"). He does a fine interior monologue about the psychiatrist as fortune cookie ("Be cautious yet confidently aggressive...
...Dana Reed prize. Not surprisingly this republication aroused Professors Landes' and Higonnet's indignation and outrage. The Crimson and Arthur Lubow recognize that this indignation and this outrage are justified and would like now to make amends by apologizing for that allegation of improper motivation and influence. We also reassert, as the original article stated, that there are positive aspects of the Harvard appointment procedure which help provide this University with a distinguished faculty...
...General Services Administration took steps this week to reassert itself in the community controversy over the preparation of an environmental impact study for the proposed John F. Kennedy Memorial Library...
...resolve of Congress to reassert itself in foreign affairs by passing the law-as well as the law itself -may well prove to be a post-Viet Nam watershed. Observed House Majority Leader Thomas P. ("Tip") O'Neill: "If the President can deal with the Arabs, Israelis and the Soviet Union, he ought to be willing to deal with the Congress of the United States...
...attempt to prove that the summer's roaring inflation has not completely taken the spine out of the President's Phase IV, the Cost of Living Council began to reassert itself. It ordered the nation's major auto firms to cut back their proposed increases in 1974 models by 10% to 30%. The decision still allows the Big Four automakers to raise their prices by amounts ranging from $51 to $74 a car. In addition, the council ordered the big firms in the steel, tire, paper and detergent industries to postpone already-announced price increases until their...