Word: affirmance
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...seem drawn from a New Yorker cartoon are hectoring their middle-aged playwright son about the "need" for less of his satirical japery and for more plays of the kind they used to enjoy -- elegant talk, beautiful clothes, faintly risque hints of extramarital indiscretion. They want entertainment to affirm life, not scrutinize it. Having sampled truth, they prefer illusion. Atop the coffee table, looking innocuous yet posing a threat so potent that a grown daughter claims to hear it "ticking," is yet another of the son's kind of play. This one is overtly about the family...
...four declared candidates for council chair, and in a debate before the election she was asked how gender influenced contention for the council's leadership. The woman, Deborah J. Slotnick '90, said that while she should be voted chair on the basis of her qualifications, she was proud to affirm that she was a feminist and would serve as a role model if elected as first woman council chair...
...Dukakis administration could do much to solve these problems. But if he is elected without the type of philosophical grounding Reagan presented in 1980, he lacks a popular mandate for his agenda. And if the standard-bearer of the major American political party most associated with liberalism refuses to affirm those values, they may cease to exist as a prominent political force...
...abandon the role of the ruling party in the country," Gorbachev said. "On the contrary, we want to affirm it," while getting the party out of day-to-day administrative affairs...
...charges before the NLRB now are the most serious ever filed. The board is currently investigating the conduct of both sides in the May election, and will decide whether to nullify the results and call for a new election or simply affirm the results. The board could reach a decision within a month, or it could decide to conduct further hearings, postponing union certification for an indefinite time period...