Word: affirmance
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...accuse the gods, to say if you can do this, then life is not worth living. Lear then consents to die." What gives Lear dignity at last is his unflinching involvement in his own destruction. Through him, Carnovsky thinks, Shakespeare was saying "I am part of life, and I affirm...
...remains hopeful, regarding Bosch more with benevolent indulgence than outright doubt. At his inauguration, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was on hand to affirm U.S. support of the new government. As one top Administration official said last week in Washington: "He's a good man, but he's been out of touch with his country too long. I think he will mellow in office." Bosch feels that his crit ics will be the ones to mellow. "At the dawn of democracy," he preached in his inaugural address, "the fears of some are very great. But the confidence...
...other hand, citizens with large incomes must be willing to recognize that the revenue code's avenues and alleys of tax avoidance are inequitable and contrary to the spirit of U.S. democracy. In abolishing them, the nation would affirm that it is indeed a society of law, in which equity is paramount over privilege and the tax system distributes the tax burden justly among all citizens...
Both before and after his 470,000-vote win over Democrat Richardson Dilworth for Governor of Pennsylvania, Republican William Scranton denied that he had any national ambitions for '64. Yet such is the contradictory language of politics that the more one denies, the more one is thought to affirm. In that sense, Scranton last week seemed to some to be heading hell-bent...
Stevenson, with his great prestige and abilities, is the ideal representative to the United Nations. Yet Kennedy has made only lukewarm efforts to affirm his support of Stevenson. Salinger's press statement was weak, the President's letter to Stevenson was unconvincing and Kennedy showed little warmth towards Stevenson at the Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation dinner. The President lost another chance to clarify his position on Stevenson at his press conference yesterday afternoon. If he does not act soon, Stevenson's reputation and effectiveness will be permanently impaired...