Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that in 1977 he had been trained by "Bulgarian and Czech experts" in a camp in Latakia, Syria. He said that he and other Turkish terrorists, together with trainees from France, Italy, Spain and West Germany, were instructed in the use of guns and bombs. Then he added: "I affirm with certainty that the Soviet Union is the political-financial center of international terrorism...
...purpose of the Committee on Rights and Responsibilities are set forth in the Handbook for Students, in the second and third paragraphs of the Resolution on Rights and Responsibilities (pages 78-79): They are 1. To see that the University honors its obligation to "affirm, assure, and protect the rights of its members to organizations, convene and conduct public meetings, publicly demonstrate and picket in orderly fashion, advocate, and publicize opinion by print, sign, and voice;" 2. To deal with any interferences with the administrative processes and activities of the University, and actions by members of the University that violate...
...fundamentally different from those of other members of society. The University, however, has a special autonomy and reasoned dissent plays a particularly vital par its existence. All members of the University have the right to press for action on matters of concern by an appropriate means. 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...
Literature about the Black middle-class has tended to be self-consciously critical, defensive and guilt-ridden. A character like Toni Morrison's Jadine, a Black model who flees her roots and exploits whites in Tar Baby, seems to affirm the idea of the desolate isolation of a young, privileged, materialistic Black member of the bourgeoise. But Lee succeeds in transcending this "bitch" stereotype with Sarah Phillips...
Again Walker offers a personal answer: the poet's vision of beauty. As a Black woman, she has learned "to worship/ the sun again./ To affirm the adventures/ of hair." As a poet and feminist, she affirms the value of the self without manufactured beauty: "For we are all/ splendid/ descendants/ of Wilderness,/ Eden:/ needing only/ to see/ each other/ without/ commercials/ to believe./ Copied skillfully/ as Adam./ Original/ as Eve." The last two lines punctuate Walker's message to women...