Word: assertion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advocating specific policies, Rogers is not expected to be bashful once he has immersed himself in the subject. His associates speak of him as anything but a mere mouthpiece, rather as one who is likely to assert his own and his department's views vigorously. Having total access to the President will be an obvious advantage. Senator Jacob Javits thinks the Nixon-Rogers relationship "might be like that of John and Robert Kennedy." If so, State may regain some of the influence it lost to the Pentagon when it could not compete with the strong leadership of former Defense...
...people, whatever their misgivings, remain ready to assert themselves at every opportunity. On instructions from Parliament, the government officially protested to Moscow the distribution of the slick occupation daily Zpravy; copies have since become scarce, and the paper is expected to vanish altogether in a few weeks. One bearded, fatigue-jacketed student leader said that "action cells" have penetrated every university in the country, and that contact between students and workers is being maintained. At the Kavalier glassworks in Sazava, employees are defiantly going ahead with their scheme to establish a workers' council despite Russia's objections. Says...
...other hand, the leaders of COWI cannot assert that they have altered Wellesley if change, in its most obvious form, is persistently resisted. Black students' demands to see themselves integrated into all aspects of life at Wellesley must be a part of any resolution calling for significant change on the campus...
THESE legitimate and traditional means of dissent are important to the arguments throughout the book. And Kennedy defends both the aims and the results of the traditional dissent. He says in a parenthesis, "Indeed, those who confidently assert that direct political action breeds 'disrespect for the law' should look more closely at the facts. In Montgomery, Alabama, at the height of the civil rights demonstrations, the Negro crime rate declined almost to zero." In making this statement Kennedy puts forth a notion which pervades the book, but is never clarified. For he supports in the name of traditional dissent many...
...most authentic texts of Shakespeare's works, scores of them differ in innumerable minor ways-they were printed in odd lots and badly proofread. Lately, scholars, equipped with a special electronic device for detecting textual variations, have coordinated all the various versions and now offer what they assert is the clearest and most accurate composite text ever. Presented in facsimile form and substantially bound in leather, the enormous volume (10 in. by 14⅜ in. by 3¼ in.) will no doubt prove useful to schools and scholars. People who read Shakespeare mainly for pleasure, however, will find...