Word: affirmatively
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israel Zangwill wrote a play "The Melting Pot" and introduced the phrase into the national vocabulary. Although his words were new, the idea was not. From Crevecoeur on, Americans have embraced the concept of the melting pot to affirm their peculiar destiny and to reassure themselves that despite the diversity of its people the United States is or will be one nation indivisible. In Beyond the Melting Pot Nathan Glazer and Daniel P. Moynihan challenge the very idea of the melting pot through an examination of the Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City...
...American embassy, Oswald announced that he meant to become a Soviet citizen, swore out an affidavit that said: "I affirm that my allegiance is to the Soviet Socialist Republic." The Marine Corps got news of Oswald's action, convened a special board and gave Oswald an "undesirable" discharge from the Marine Reserve. Enraged, Oswald wrote a letter to John Connally, who had just stepped down as Secretary of the Navy to run for Governor of Texas. Said the letter, which was found among Oswald's Marine records last weekend...
...accuse the gods, to say if you can do this, then life is not worth living. Lear then consents to die." What gives Lear dignity at last is his unflinching involvement in his own destruction. Through him, Carnovsky thinks, Shakespeare was saying "I am part of life, and I affirm...
...remains hopeful, regarding Bosch more with benevolent indulgence than outright doubt. At his inauguration, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was on hand to affirm U.S. support of the new government. As one top Administration official said last week in Washington: "He's a good man, but he's been out of touch with his country too long. I think he will mellow in office." Bosch feels that his crit ics will be the ones to mellow. "At the dawn of democracy," he preached in his inaugural address, "the fears of some are very great. But the confidence...
...other hand, citizens with large incomes must be willing to recognize that the revenue code's avenues and alleys of tax avoidance are inequitable and contrary to the spirit of U.S. democracy. In abolishing them, the nation would affirm that it is indeed a society of law, in which equity is paramount over privilege and the tax system distributes the tax burden justly among all citizens...