Word: affirmatively
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Literature about the Black middle-class has tended to be self-consciously critical, defensive and guilt-ridden. A character like Toni Morrison's Jadine, a Black model who flees her roots and exploits whites in Tar Baby, seems to affirm the idea of the desolate isolation of a young, privileged, materialistic Black member of the bourgeoise. But Lee succeeds in transcending this "bitch" stereotype with Sarah Phillips...
Again Walker offers a personal answer: the poet's vision of beauty. As a Black woman, she has learned "to worship/ the sun again./ To affirm the adventures/ of hair." As a poet and feminist, she affirms the value of the self without manufactured beauty: "For we are all/ splendid/ descendants/ of Wilderness,/ Eden:/ needing only/ to see/ each other/ without/ commercials/ to believe./ Copied skillfully/ as Adam./ Original/ as Eve." The last two lines punctuate Walker's message to women...
...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...