Word: reassertions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Communists Compete. For six years after the Communists took power in China, Peking was too busy and too poor to try to reassert China's influence over its ancient colony and onetime conqueror...
...Bundy's successor will enjoy an almost unparalleled opportunity to channel undergraduate teaching in old or new directions, with or without major expenses. He can continue the trend toward academic specialization, which has made the College a prep school for graduate study, reassert the purposes of General Education, or choose from a variety of other courses. Many specific changes aimed toward greater curricular flexibility can enhance the quality of undergraduate education without involving large sums of money...
Temples on Human Scale. The new churches first of all bear witness that congregations today are determined to reassert their place in a highly secular century. "This is not a great cathedral-building age, like the Middle Ages." Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe says, "Today, if you tried to build a cathedral, you would succeed only in building a big church. Not religion but technology is the controlling spirit...
...reverse the convictions. Much as society may want to put known criminals behind bars, the evidence in the Apalachin case plainly did not warrant conviction on the admittedly trumped-up count of conspiracy. The Appeals Court decision is a welcome indication that the judiciary is still ready to reassert the rule of law over the public's desire to "get" a group of people it regards as undesirable...
...good, well-matched ground attacks, and the outcome may depend on the work of the Harvard forward wall. If the Crimson line repeats its UMass flasco, the varsity doesn't have a chance. If, however, the line comes close to its Holy Cross form, the Crimson should win and reassert its claim to attention in the confused Ivy League picture...