Word: reassertions
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...both a political citizen and a moral man," he said. "But Spain has found the worse solution--to suppress both. To renounce politics is to accept the Establishment and become a passive citizen. To renounce ethics is to lose respect for one's own human dignity. Somehow we must reassert these things together...
Western observers see the new Japanese justification of the Pacific war as a logical outgrowth of the country's search for national identity. As the world's fifth-ranking industrial power and Asia's wealthiest nation, Japan feels a need to reassert itself in Asian affairs. Tokyo University Political Scientist Masao Maruyama suggests that the war in Viet Nam-which pits Asians against whites-tends to reinforce Japanese views that the Pacific war was justifiable as an "anti-colonial" and anti-white crusade...
...Creole French. Its soil is more fertile, and its population density only half that of its smaller neighbor. What it shares is a common history of chaos. As in Haiti, bloody rebellions drove out the European governors, first the French in 1809, then the Spanish who had tried to reassert their dominion. No sooner had the Dominican Republic declared its independence in 1821 than it was invaded by neighboring Haiti, which occupied the country for 22 brutal years. The Haitians banned all foreign priests, severed papal relations, closed the University of Santo Domingo, and levied confiscatory taxes. Not until...
Edwin E. Moise, James Bryant Conant Professor of Education and Mathematics and a member of the Committee, said yesterday that the meeting "will not only reassert our right to criticize the conduct of the Vietnamese war but also use this right to make substantive criticisms of the war itself...
...more than 30 years provided few moments of leadership and even fewer leaders. For now, however, the GOP's task seems herculean. In the 1950's the party made an inept attempt at becoming a majority party. In the 1960's it must do something far more basic: reassert itself as an effective minority party...