Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important pieces of the organization has been to affirm and reaffirm that we're not members of the 'Me generation.' This party is a way of showing that," Rondeau said...
...University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize," the Resolution goes on to say. Yet the University has done everything within its power to prevent the formation of the Harvard Union of Technical and Clerical Workers before capitulating last week. In fact, Harvard claims that the very rights it seeks to protect, those to "convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate...in orderly fashion advocate, and publicize by print sign and voice," have been used against it unfairly...
...such a rule does exist, it goes against Harvard's own stated policies and established law. The April 14, 1970, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Resolutions on Rights and Responsibilities reads, in part: "The University must affirm, assure and protect the rights of its members to organize and join political associations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate, and publicize opinion by print, sign and voice...
...seem drawn from a New Yorker cartoon are hectoring their middle-aged playwright son about the "need" for less of his satirical japery and for more plays of the kind they used to enjoy -- elegant talk, beautiful clothes, faintly risque hints of extramarital indiscretion. They want entertainment to affirm life, not scrutinize it. Having sampled truth, they prefer illusion. Atop the coffee table, looking innocuous yet posing a threat so potent that a grown daughter claims to hear it "ticking," is yet another of the son's kind of play. This one is overtly about the family...
...four declared candidates for council chair, and in a debate before the election she was asked how gender influenced contention for the council's leadership. The woman, Deborah J. Slotnick '90, said that while she should be voted chair on the basis of her qualifications, she was proud to affirm that she was a feminist and would serve as a role model if elected as first woman council chair...