Word: affirming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shelley was usually thinkink what he thought he ought to think and felt what he thought he ought to feel," Mr. Eliot stated, in contradiction to those who affirm the Arielesque spontaneity of the poet. "Hence, the greatest passages in his poetry are the ones which contain none of his 'revolutionary' political and social beliefs. Revolution has produced an adolescent and incoherent poet in Shelley since he was too occupied with his ideas on free-love...
...What they modestly describe as a "footnote to Harvard history" will be found elsewhere in the present issue of the Bulletin. While making no claim to originality, and acknowledging their indebtedness to Frederick Winsor '93, as well as to the educational currents of their time, they justly affirm their independence, It is a matter of no small importance that this initiative should have come from undergraduates of Harvard College. The House Plan met with its most formidable resistance in that quarter. It could never have succeeded if it had been imposed on its supposed beneficiaries by a benevolent paternalism...
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...
...declaration which forms part of the Final Act of the Lausanne Conference the signatory powers express how the task there accomplished will be followed by fresh achievements. They affirm further that success will be more readily won if the nations will rally to a new effort in the cause of peace, which can only be complete if it is applied in both the economic and political spheres. In the same document the signatory powers declare their intention to make every effort to resolve the problems which exist at the present moment or may arise subsequently in the spirit which...
...Canterbury appointed a committee to consider the Lambeth resolution. Kept secret until last week, this committee's report deplores progressive weakening since 1908, when the bishops called birth control "demoralizing . . . hostile," and 1914, when it was "dangerous . . . sinful." Courteously the report notes that the bishops were careful to affirm the indissolubility of marriage, "but less careful to maintain the consequences of the principle." Accordingly the Lower House committee tightens up. Not only should divorced persons be denied remarriage in the church, says the report, but also they should be denied Holy Communion-even the innocent person in a divorce...