Word: affirmation
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...half-hour address, Hesburgh advocated a "world citizenship" as a means "to transcend nationalistic chauvinism." What is needed, Hesburgh said, is a "Declaration of Interdependence" to affirm the unity, equality, and dignity of humankind...
...ironic it is that the same males who are amazed that women feel the need to meet together as women in order to secure (not to mention affirm) their female identities should come to such a meeting in drag. "It was a little bit strange -- a transvestite table. But I guess we were really unconscious about that," admits one of last week's many 'queens.' "If we were not dressed up, it would have been more of a political act. But the way we did it, we were trying to say that we meant it but not really...
RACE RELATIONS at Harvard is a touchy subject. Although most white students here are quick to affirm their lack of prejudice, they find their liberal beliefs hard to reconcile with the de facto black self-segregation in dining halls and House rooms. Loud parties and cold stares even seem at times to be signs of outright black hostility. Whites turned out by the hundreds last year to walk picket lines in support of the Mass Hall black takeover, but once the occupation ended, the familiar checkerboard pattern was re-established in the dining halls...
Above all, it will affirm the resurgence of one of the great talents of the age, one who had seemed, through the 1960s, to be erratically and sometimes disastrously in decline: Marlon Brando. Brando is already being touted as an Academy Award contender for his role in last year's The Godfather. Now his emotionally wrenching, coruscating performance as the protagonist of Tango fulfills all the promise he gave in the earlier film of regaining his old dominance, not only as an actor but also as a star and a legend...
...great skill he shows in blending resonances from such things as the Divine Comedy, the Revelations of St. John and the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh with a story whose surfaces occasionally resemble All in the Family. Happily Gardner is on record as believing that a novelist should tolerate, even affirm the banal and the ordinary. "When Dickens wept over Little Nell," he says, "it was not because he was a subtle metaphysician. He mistook her for human...