Word: position
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rightful place as human beings. Attitudinal barriers often stem from discomfort and fear, and create a barrier for which there is no ready solution. Underneath them is a wish to avoid contact with people with disabilities, perhaps out of fear of confronting one's own mortality, as some people posit, of "there but for fortune go I." Attitudinal barriers can only be eliminated by years of education, part of which ideally should happen at Harvard...
...latest issue of GQ, senior editor Peter Carisen even goes so far as to say, in all seriousness, that "fashion is anathema to radicals of both the right and left, who posit an unchanging social order once utopia has been reached. Fashion is ultimately anarchistic, since it delivers endless change. What, in fact, could be more subtly seditious than a process that regularly heaves the existing order upside down, informing its constituency that what was black yesterday is white today...
...more penetrating knowledge of himself than any other man who ever lived or was ever likely to live." Surely Freud's concept of the superego was inspired by Nietzsche's ubermensch or superman. Further, argues Kaufmann the petty iconoclast, Nietzsche's will to power provoked Freud to posit the "death instinct" as a second principle motivating human behavior...
...question must be asked: How can any honest dialogue about race and class be conducted in the most advanced capitalist country without so much as a single reference to the commodity-structure of production which generates these insane class conflicts and racial antagonisms? Therefore, to posit race and class as binary opposites defeats the whole purpose of trying to understand the present oppression of Afro-American people and fall into the ideological trick-bag of the dominant white society...
...assertion that somehow massive cuts can be made in city expenditures without affecting services is so twisted that it casts shadows on the credibility of those who posit it. Cambridge is not running a posh, private academy for its school children. It merely desires to provide them with libraries, remedial reading and other services that hardly qualify as frills...