Word: reasserted
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Pusey wrote that it should be no surprise that universities are actively resented now and then since, "the little boy who hates school unfortunately continues to lurk in too many adults and needs very little encouragement to reassert himself...
...days in prison for perjury, Alger Hiss was paroled (until next September). Outside the prison a throng of more than 70 newsmen surged around him as he intoned his careful words: "I am very glad to use this chance-the first I have had in nearly four years-to reassert my complete innocence of the charges that were brought against me by Whittaker Chambers ... I have had to wait in silence while, in my absence, a myth has been developed. I hope that the return of the mere man will help to dispel the myth ... I shall renew my efforts...
...sunken living room, that they choose his ties and the pictures on his wall, that they make him buy orchid corsages and join the Book-of-the-Month Club. Whenever this male forgetfulness about the real balance of power threatens to become habitual, the women tacitly band together to reassert their authority. They have just done so again by taking a pudgy, wavy-haired pianist from Milwaukee to their hearts and turning him into a sensational show-business success. He has sold more records (400,000 albums) than Eddie Fisher, has the most widely admired dimples since Shirley Temple...
...high time, concludes Woodward, that the historian reassert himself as the guardian of the integrity of American history. "The historian must never concede that the past is alterable to conform with present convenience, with the party line, with mass prejudice, or with the ambitions of powerful popular leaders...
...collection (though he leans to the cautious hope of Keynes far more than to the bolder hopes of Adam Smith, as adapted to modern times by Economist Friedrich Hayek). Heilbroner predicts that economics will diminish somewhat as an influence on human affairs, and that morals and politics will reassert themselves more strongly. Capitalism's big problem, he feels, is not really economic, but political-the "problem of establishing itself as the arsenal, not only of production, but also of hope and meaningful freedom to the anonymous hundreds of millions who may otherwise distrust us [and] take arms against...