Word: asserting
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...claimed that since in 1957 the legislature had changed the law under which Wyman was acting, Uphaus's conviction now had no force. But because the State Supreme Court had ruled that the change was only in wording, the Federal court had to have grounds of constitutional conflict to assert jurisdiction. It had denied itself such grounds when it declared in 1959 that governmental interest out-weighed the right of associational privacy in this kind of investigation...
...said, 'Sometimes you run into off-beat ideas from some of these ministers who think that the soul leaves the body and the body is just like a rind that can be thrown away after death.' His reaction to this brush with neo-Platonism was to assert that clergymen like that 'just want to kill sentiment,' an interesting possibility...
Johnson insists he has no quarrel with the "new critics" who assert that a literary work should require no knowledge to be understood outside of that presented in the book itself. He maintains, however, that a knowledge of the author's life can very often throw further illumination on his works. It would be a critical folly, he says, to throw this knowledge away...
...health." On the other hand, Beat art, says Goodman, is parochial, hopelessly parochial. Discussing Beat words--"make it," "like," "man," "cool" --Goodman finds a paucity of vocabulary and syntax expressive of the Best withdrawal from standard civilization and its learning. "In a Best group it is bad form to assert or deny a preposition as trus or false, probable or improbable, or to want to explore its meaning. The aim of conversation is for each one to be able, by speech, to know that he is existing and belonging...
This deep-seated conviction is reflected in the many debates on educational policy tend to center on what the student should be taught rather than what he actually winds up learning, and in the resounding resolution with which Faculty members will assert that they have no influence over either the interests or the efforts of undergraduates. The same attitude makes admissions most important problem of the College. If Harvard only offers opportunities rather than holding attitudes and talents, the raw material the most important part of the educational...