Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this last monotheistic religion, which claimed to complete its two predecessors. Perplexingly grand and "Oriental," incorporating elements of Judeo-Christianity, Islam never fully submitted to the West's power. Its various states and empires always provided the West with formidable political and cultural contestants-and with opportunities to affirm a "superior" Occidental identity. Thus, for the West, to understand Islam has meant trying to convert its variety into a monolithic undeveloping essence, its originality into a debased copy of Christian culture, its people into fearsome caricatures...
...University official said Thursday the visa enforcement policy is not new, but that after the Iranian riot the INS wanted to re-affirm its position publicly. "The INS was embarrassed that they really didn't know what foreign students were doing," the official said...
...denounce and defend, or feel prepared to defend. I condemn and affirm, say no and yes, say yes and no. I denounce because though implicated and partially responsible, I have been hurt to the point of abysmal pain, hurt to the point of invisibility. And I defend because in spite of all I find that I love. In order to get some of it down I have to love...
...Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge, the desk clerk seems first to rebut, then to affirm, Carmen's assessment. "Been keeping up with all the presidential candidates traipsing through Manchester?" "Yeah," he says brightly. "A couple of them were right here at the lodge." "Which ones?" A gulp. "I can't remember which ones...
...purpose is not to affirm or deny a link between profits derived from exploitation and the financial well-being of this university. It is rather, Mr. President, to express my surprise that a university dedicated, in your words, to a "continuing critique of our values, our behavior, our institutions, and our social practices" commits so little of its resources to study and instruction on this question. The Economics Department, where one might logically expect to find this continuing critique, is rather more committed to making capitalism work smoothly that to subjecting it to basic critical evaluation. The economics of institutional...