Word: affirmation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...struggle with disbelief, but as more and more victims go crashing through the streets trampling cats and knocking down stairs, the survivors become engaged in a struggle to retain their humanity. Eventually, only Berenger, a lackluster drunkard wrapped in a haze of brandy and paranoia is left to hopelessly affirm his own humanity as everyone around him joins the unstoppable herd of rhinoceroses. The play, which signaled at turning point in the career of the dramatist Eugene Ionesco, is a startling commentary on the rise of fascism and on mass hysteria...
...relief, the Handbook on Race Relations did no such thing. It is an entirely uncontroversial collection of interesting essays from students and scholars that, according to Dean Archie Epps, should "deepen our understanding of the light and shadow surrounding the important subject of race relations" and "affirm the `common ground' in human experience." But what is this "common ground"? If we could define this nebulous area of human experience, that would certainly be a step in the right direction...
Their strength lay in the stories, passed from generation to generation. And so when descendants of Thomas Woodson rolled up their sleeves to give blood for DNA testing, they saw it as a chance to affirm their faith--that Thomas was, in fact, a child of Thomas Jefferson and his slave Sally Hemings. "We knew it like religion," says Robert Golden, Thomas' great-great-great- grandson. The results, however, came as a shock: Jefferson was not Thomas Woodson's father...
...final (and arguably, most perfect) pieces, the vocal accompanied Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth), they achieved two feats. Not only did the BSO lead us to Mahler's own spiritual crossroad--the dark hinterland that lingers between life and death--but it managed to affirm its reputation as one of America's greatest symphonies...
...helpful to have sex celebrated and sexuality celebrated in a positive way," she said. "If we as women don't affirm our sexuality, we are in danger of losing it. It is in peril...