Word: affirmation
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Pentagon, it would provide a careerist body of men staying in the ranks long enough to learn their jobs and do them well; as it is, 93% of drafted soldiers leave the service when their two-year tour of duty ends. For constitutionalists, a volunteer army would affirm the principle that free men should not be forced into involuntary servitude in violation of the 13th Amendment. For philosophers, it would restore freedom of choice; if a man wants to be a soldier, he can do so, and if not, he does not have to. The idea also appeals...
...Beatles do it again and it is only left to affirm, in spite of the shock of distrust introduced into the relationship by the slap in "Revolution", that I, and you, still love and respect the Beatles...
...existential revolt against the WASP suburbanite society, whether its members style themselves "liberal," "conservative," or "moderate" (a blue-ribbon porker is still a pig). Gustave Flaubert put it this way: "Hatred of the bourgeois is the beginning of all virtue " Can you dig it? The kids can. I affirm their stand...
...Hebrew Bible is depicted as the faithful protector of his chosen people. Yet at least 6,000,000 Jews died at the hands of the Nazis. To believe in the God of the Covenant today, concludes Richard L. Rubenstein, Jews must affirm that their creator "used Adolf Hitler as the rod of his wrath to send his people to the death camps. I find myself utterly incapable of believing this. Even the existentialist leap of faith cannot resurrect this dead God after Auschwitz...
...community among ourselves nor effective agents for changing our country if a negative is all we share. Albert Camus said that the rebel, who says No, is also one who says Yes, and that when he draws a line beyond which he will refuse to cooperate he is affirming the values on the other side of that line. For us who come here today, what is it that we affirm, what is it to which...