Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument that the United States must attack the Soviet homeland at the slightest provocation. But his reasoning is little short of "preventive war" enthusiasm and would threaten the U.S. with a total conflict involving no real winners. It is the very danger of hydrogen warfare that prompted Eisenhower to affirm that outside of co-existence "there is no alternative to peace." The fallacy of Knowland's charge that co-existence will mean ultimate Soviet victory is best shown by returning to Churchill's original definition of the policy...
Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, declined to either affirm or deny the report. His only comment was that "We do not announce our schedules more than a year in advance...
...Should a negative thought of defeat come into your mind, expel it by increasing the positive affirmation. Affirm aloud: 'God is now giving me success. He is now giving me attainment...
...with the dominant realities of modern life.' I am not sure that answer is true; but I am sure that the church must face up to the issue of justice. It is not enough for us to repudiate, as we do, the atheism of orthodox Communism . . . Men who affirm that nothing can separate us from the love of God must renounce the practical atheism that lies in the affirmation that God is not relevant to all the activities...
Regardless of what this year's graduate will take with him away from Cambridge, he will have shared in an experience participated in by relatively few people: the first year of a new Harvard President. It is said that Nathan Marsh Pusey was chosen in an effort to re-affirm the spirit and values of a liberal education, particularly in how it applies to these Four Years. It seems to us that in the space of a little less than ten months President Pusey has given the idea of liberal education a needed scrubbing and polishing-especially in a time...