Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strongly individualistic flavor." Yet, for most of these masters, their deepest bond lies in a conviction that, as Rouault put it, "anyone can revolt," and in a search for unequivocal vision whatever the individualistic idiom or temperament might be--the very quest for universality which led Picasso to stoutly affirm, "There is no abstract...
...line, singling out his closest supporters for vicious personal attacks with an intensity which made the startled and for the most part silent left call it "the black day." Then the Stalinists put their power to test; the general resolution of the plenum must be reworded, they said, to affirm the Soviet Union's "leading" position and to condemn the Hungarian "counter-revolution...
...refused either to affirm or deny another rumor which had the committee offering an interim appointment to Josh Williams, currently the Crimson back-field coach. Williams was unavailable for comment last night. According to the Boston press, Williams, who is known to have the endorsement of the vast majority of the present football squad, had turned down an interim appointment, preferring instead a more permanent situation...
...eyes of many authoritative observers, the committee's actions last night tried to circumvent the legal attacks. Over Shaplin's objections, the committee voted to demand that Tobin give his recommendations and the qualifications of the appointees. The board then voted to "ratify and affirm" the appointments of the men whose qualifications Tobin had given...
Change Comes Hard From the deep fissions and hard fusions of the South, where no leading public figure had yet dared affirm the validity of the Supreme Court's desegregation decrees, Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins last week sounded a clear call for reason and conciliation. Said he at ceremonies marking his reinauguration: "It will do us no good whatever to defy the U.S. Supreme Court ... Its decisions are the law of the land. And this nation's strength and Florida's strength are bottomed on the premise that ours is a land...