Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...theme: a lone individual voyages out from familiar surroundings into exotic ones. These characters are tested (as Lean has liked to test himself on the far-flung locations of his wandering life), forced to examine their assumptions about themselves, the world, their places in it. All of them must affirm their humanity against the indifference?the muddle?of whatever corner of the unhelpful universe they find themselves. All discover, sooner or later, happily or unhappily, that their original certainties require radical revision...
...Health Services has refused to stock the pills. "The mission of the university is to affirm and enhance life," said a university spokesman, Mark M. Nickel, "Suicide is not a solution to any problem...
...Liberals affirm their rights...
...view the world cynically," he once said). He published an "as told to" book by an aging mobster, Joseph Bonanno. Critics complained that it romanticized the Mafia and objected to its title, A Man of Honor. The title was Korda's, who later explained, "It does not affirm that Simon & Schuster thinks he is a man of honor, but that that is what he claims...
Last week's costly extravaganza, swollen with hordes of simultaneous translators, government aides and journalists, managed to affirm Western solidarity, and it certainly did no harm to Ronald Reagan's chances for reelection. But for all its lofty declarations, it made little progress in finding solutions to the pressing problems the world's major industrial nations face...