Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deny the virgin birth, said Baptist Max Wicker, "and I do not affirm it. My mind is still open." This statement of position last week did not satisfy Wicker's superiors on the general board of the Southern Baptist Church in North Carolina. After a six-hour hearing, the board dismissed from their jobs: Wicker, 39, secretary of the Baptist Student Union at Duke University; the Rev. J. C. Herrin, 29, Baptist Student Union secretary at the University of North Carolina, and the union's state secretary, the Rev. James W. Ray, 39. Like Wicker, the others...
Camus' rebel asserts as he destroys. Like Ivan Karaxazov, he challenges God in the name of a greater good. "If the suffering of children," says the rebel through Ivan's words, "serves to complete the sum of suffering necessary for the acquisition of truth, I affirm from now onwards that truth is not worth such a price." He denies God, because God is unjust...
...missed treatment of the subject of the moral rehabilitation of Germany. Before we can affirm or negate that the re-emergence of Germany during 1953 has changed the world picture, we have to assess whether some of the fundamental issues have been met by Adenauer's Germany...
...once advised an associate to buy an Exakta camera because it had an attachment that was most useful in photographing documents. Ullmann shared a house with Nathan Gregory Silvermaster. named by Elizabeth Bentley as the head of a Communist spy ring. Silvermaster and Ullmann have both refused to affirm or deny that they were Communists, or that they were spies...
...instruments of freedom . . . They are the natural medium for the new idea and the untried voice, from which come the original contributions to social growth. They are essential to the extended discussion which serious thought requires, and to the accumulation of knowledge and ideas into organized collections . . . We therefore affirm these propositions...