Mr. Riley's simple recipe — performers repeat each of 53 melodic kernels for as long as they like against a pulsating C in octaves, ending when everyone has played every section — asserted a view of music as a communal action and a key to transcendence.
To defend itself against Mr Starr's subpoenas, the White House is asserting a broad view of executive privilege: it argues that not only the president, but also the first lady and certain members of the White House staff, should be allowed to hold consultations without fear that their contents will later be subpoenaed.
Their labors played out against the backdrop of how some of their predecessors under President George W. Bush had become defined by their once-secret memos asserting a nearly unlimited view of executive authority, like that a president's wartime powers allowed him to defy Congressional statutes limiting torture and surveillance.
As Judy Chu, a Chinese American and former mayor of Monterey Park, Calif., which is heavily Asian, observes: "Taking a lot of risks and a lot of criticism, asserting a point of view and talking about yourself -- that is not in the Asian nature". Their diversity further complicates the role of Asian Americans in politics.
I have never been comfortable with movements that assert a separatist view of culture.
Being authentically curious can take practice and rewiring: you have to accept the idea that others may be as smart as you, and suspend (good!) habits like asserting a strong point of view.
Today, although the United States is dominant and the European Union is asserting a more unified point of view, free trade and transparent markets are the forces shaping commerce, not any one nation.
"It is important that whatever administration takes over in Iraq has the authority of the U.N. behind it," he asserted, expressing a view widely held in Europe.
The new sports memoirs tend toward ludicrous performance art — the literary offspring, if you will, of Wilt Chamberlain, who asserted in "A View From Above" (1991) that he had slept with nearly 20,000 women.
They are in partnership with a Tory party, part of whose detox exercise was to assert a more wholesome view of civil liberties than the one they – often wrongly – attributed to Labour.
In the past year, Trump's lawyers have asserted a similarly broad view of executive authority over criminal investigations.
