Word: reassertions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suspense settled on the question of whether Chris Evert could complete her rapid transit from crown princess to empress of the sport. Grass is not her favorite surface, though that did not stop her from taking the Wimbledon crown this summer. But King's grit could reassert itself, and a number of foreign competitors, including Australia's Evonne Goolagong and Russia's Olga Morozova, are around to keep the action crisp...
Long before Watergate, it was obvious that the balance of power between the U.S. presidency and Congress (as well as, to some extent, local government) had been seriously upset. For American leadership to reassert itself, this imbalance will have to be righted, and the current constitutional struggle relating to Watergate is only part of the picture...
...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...