Word: affirmance
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...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...
...members of the Banal Generation (dean's-list students, over 20, and not even flower children) do hereby affirm our faith in the warmth and empathy of the poetry of Rod McKuen [Nov. 24] and do unanimously declare that your review is Truman Capote with a twist of formaldehyde. SANDRA BARKER CATHY TRACY MARGOT GRONHOLZ Wittenberg University Springfield, Ohio...
...Debray finally changed his story and, in effect, pleaded guilty. "I want to make clear," he told the court, "that this mission of mine to tell people abroad of the aims of the guerrillas is an integral part of revolutionary work. In this sense, I not only affirm but demand that the tribunal consider me morally and politically co-responsible for the acts of my guerrilla comrades." And so it did; Bustos, his Argentine comrade, was sentenced at the same time to 30 years. After the sentencing, the Bolivian army seemed determined to close the whole Debray matter, which...