Word: affirming
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...organized to affirm, to assert in ways that are "refreshingly radical," and to interrogate further a group of cultural and historical aspirations which we believe we share. This, in a world and a country whose affairs are as confused as ours, is an arduous, conflicted, and often painful task. The rational task is made all the more difficult because, when we dare to think that we might be coming to terms with others as human beings, we discover that basic terms of our discussion--the "racial" definitions that have brought us thus far through history--themselves divide us emotionally into...
...section of the federal criminal code, he turned De Angelis over to the personal custody of U.S. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach. FBI agents will continue to question De Angelis about his tangled affairs. In August, U.S. Director of Prisons Myrl Alexander will report to the judge and 1) affirm the sentence, 2) suggest a reduction, or 3) recommend that De Angelis be put on probation immediately. If he cooperates in answering the many riddles that remain, he could go free within three months...
True, the curtain-raising speech by Minister of Power Fred Lee, introducing the motion, was a trifle dull, and the Opposition, led by Iain Macleod, did little more than affirm its determination to denationalize steel if and when it gets into office. But ample suspense was provided by two of Labor's own backbenchers, Right-Wingers Woodrow Wyatt and Desmond Donnelly, who had announced ahead of time that they disagreed with Wilson's plans to nationalize steel, might very well vote against his government and thus endanger his hair-thin majority...
What Did He Say? Fellowship members range from Pentecostals to Greek Orthodox, although all must affirm their belief in the authority of the Bible, the divinity of Christ, and the historical fact of Resurrection. What the fellowship seeks to do, explains its new U.S. general director, University of Wisconsin Geographer John Alexander, is to answer five basic questions: "What did Jesus say? Why did he say it? What did he do? Why did he do it? And, finally, what is the significance of the answers to these questions to me as an individual?" In pursuit of the answers, Inter-Varsity...
...another letter to Ambassador Taylor, the Buddhists hinted that unless the U.S. withdraws its support from Huong-as it did last year from President Ngo Dinh Diem-Buddhist ire may be turned against Americans. Pointedly the Buddhists warned Taylor: "We affirm that you are responsible, before both the American and Vietnamese peoples, for the existence of the Huong government." Whereupon Chau, Quang and the Buddhists' nominal religious head, Thich Tinh Khiet, announced a 48-hour weekend hunger strike, urging Buddhists to join them in round-the-clock prayer sessions. From Darlac province came an offer of candidates for flaming...