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Word: reassertions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moscow will cause the West to succumb to a false sense of security that could again end in disillusionment. The accord might also tempt the Eastern Europeans to move too far and too fast in seeking accommodation with the West. If that happens, Soviet leaders may decide to reassert the Brezhnev Doctrine-just as they did in Czechoslovakia two years ago. Because of the dismal failure of Soviet-style Communism to develop healthy roots in Eastern Europe, Communism may face greater risks than the West by the creation of a more relaxed atmosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Toward the Era of Negotiations | 8/17/1970 | See Source »

WHILE radicals feuded, "moderate students"- a term encompassing virtually everyone outside SDS and NAC- began to reassert themselves as a political force. The academic year 1968-69 had been one of shell-shock for most moderates, As moderates watched the McCarthy campaign's bloody denouement in Chicago and the dismal spectacle of Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey competing for the hearts and minds of Middle America. political activity on the right of SDS virtually stopped. Some were radicalized: probably a greater number simply withdrew from politics. This absence of a continuing counterweight to SDS in 1968-69 meant that, when...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: Harvard Activism '70: Some Rioted, While Others Returned to the System | 6/11/1970 | See Source »

Eventually Milly is carted off with the other "animals." But as time goes on, the government is unable to completely eliminate the animal roots in man. They reassert themselves as a powerful nostalgia for the "animals." Enforcement of the H.D.A. slackens, and the deformed, the insane and the defective become the new elite. Madness and destruction ensue. "All dreams lead back to the nightmare garden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to Nightmare | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...their leaders, Christopher Easter '73, president of the Freshman Council, called for a new meeting to "reassert the original premises of the strike, [including] that tactics are nonviolent...

Author: By Michael J. Bishop and Shirley E. Wolman, S | Title: Pickets Close Down University Hall, Block Administrators From Building | 5/9/1970 | See Source »

...sponsor of the bill- Rep. Timothy W. Hickey (D-Cambridge)- even suggested that perhaps it didn't go far enough. Instead of merely taking over Harvard Stadium, he said, perhaps the legislature should reassert the control it had 300 years ago over the entire University. "Harvard was in effect our first state or public university, and it should now open its arms to the Commonwealth," he said...

Author: By William R. Galeota, | Title: University's Stadium Stand Receives Swift Retaliation | 1/28/1970 | See Source »

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