Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee said that it will continue to circulate the petition over the week-end. "In signing this petition," the appeal reads, "we do not signify our approval of Mr. Browder's point of view, but affirm the right of Harvard students to hear...
...were forced to open a small date bureau, never dreaming in the world that the idea would ever take hold, but about the second night we fixed up nearly half of the Business School with dates for their Columbus Day dance," she boasted. Miss Slote was very careful to affirm that the date bureau would be abandoned as soon as the 'Group' made some noticeable impression on Harvard boys, and that it was not an end in itself but merely the means...
...proclaim to a world which is once again madly preparing for war that the gospel of God as revealed in Jesus Christ . . . leaves us with no other choice but to refuse to sanction or participate in war. . . . We affirm our faith that the mission of the church today is to witness with singleness of heart, at whatever cost, to the power of good to overcome evil, of love to conquer hatred, of the Cross to shatter the sword...
...observer of the changing business scene, I shall welcome into my home another index to supplement and affirm-or disaffirm-other series...
When Barry attempts to sum up his allegory of good and evil in words, and to affirm man's redemption through his own powers of godliness, it is all too plainly the author speaking, not the characters. If this summing up is bad because of its clumsy preaching, it is also bad because its very explicitness shatters a mood whose strength lies in its eerie, wordless power of suggestion. Barry's people, never quite real, can haunt the audience as unhappy spectres; as stock symbols in a morality play, they merely irritate...