Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women through the centuries on supposedly minor, "decorative" arts, and to help rehabilitate all fiberwork as a serious medium of visual discourse. So they do-at times movingly; and it is well to keep in mind how many of the vestments, arrases and other trappings whose function was to affirm male power, from the Bayeux Tapestry to the sacerdotal wardrobes of the church, were actually made by women...
...through her fear, re-establish at least a rudimentary sense of invulnerability, and accept her own power before she is able to act constructively. In fact, most women break through society's myths and lead normal lives. But the woman's life is changed and she needs others to affirm and support her own positive growth after her pain...
Whatever the outcome of the election today it will settle no great issue nor will it affirm or deny any political principle. Whether the conduct of the United States government will be measurably altered during the next four years should Governor Roosevelt be elected is in itself doubtful. There is nothing new in this although the present campaign has failed peculiarly to distinguish between the two leading parties. What is important and remains so unaffected by the consequences of today's election is that the working principles of government which are assumed by both democrats and republicans and to some...
...have come here tonight not to argue as a candidate but to affirm a cause ... I speak out of a deep sense of urgency about the anguish and anxiety I have seen across America ... We cannot let the great purposes of the Democratic Party become the bygone passages of history...
...occupied most of the seats had little idea what was going on. The black-robed Justices referred to the cases by their uninformative docket names (the quotas case, for example, was identified as Fullilove vs. Klutznick), and Chief Justice Warren Burger announced two of the decisions by droning, "We affirm . . . We reverse...