Word: affirmance
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...listens to his conscience these days?" With his 80th birthday approaching and an exhibition of his drawings on view at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, Chicago's German-born Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the world's greatest living architect, took time last week to affirm that he, for one, still heeded his conscience, that his faith in his own first principles was as firm as ever...
Each teacher who takes the loyalty oath must affirm support of the constitution of the United States and of Massachusetts. He must also promise to "faithfully discharge the duties of the position," a clause which the professors believe to be dangerously vague...
...came from Press Secretary Bill Moyers, who told reporters: "The President in the last few weeks has felt that it was especially appropriate for more leaders of the world to know his views on Asia. This is a continuation of this Government's efforts to state and restate, affirm and reaffirm, clarify and reclarify our position on Viet...
...claim that I am perfect. I do not claim to know everything nor to be able to do everything." Earlier in the week Charles de Gaulle had taken a longer view, and it was likely the view that the history he loves so much will ultimately affirm. "Whatever happens, whatever happens," he intoned, "I will have fulfilled my destiny ... I will have fulfilled my life...
...strongly affirm the right of all citizens to express their dissent from government policy without such action reflecting on the loyalty," the statement read...