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...certain the magazine can defend itself. But if the author is that intent, I'm sure he and I can find a more appropriate forum (and topic) in which to discuss the quality of that "verbally incontinent" publication for which I write. At present, I write to affirm HQ's committment to and investment in both racial equality and multiculturalism...
...most skilled and insightful Americans," he wrote, "who are already positioned to thrive in the world market, are now able to slip the bonds of national allegiance, and by so doing disengage themselves from their less-favored fellows. The stark political challenge in the decade ahead will be to affirm that, even though America is no longer a separate and distinct economy, it is still a society whose members have abiding obligations to one another...
Just like shoes, schools come in a variety of sizes and styles. Some explicitly affirm and teach a set of values, a political ideology or a set of religious beliefs, while others have a hands-off approach to children's moral and spiritual value-finding. Some are geared to the needs of gifted children, while others are equipped to handle children with behavioral or learning disabilities (something the public school "special ed" system does poorly). Others have a specific ethnic or gender composition which empowers and nurtures the students...
...define Wright's beliefs but to help readers understand the evolving relationship between the spiritual and empirical worlds. To help that process, associate editor Richard N. Ostling has written a piece accompanying the main story that tells of working scientists of various faiths who are perfectly willing to affirm their belief in God the Creator...
...lyric moment is the moment before our minds are made up for a particular action or a particular way of seeing. It is not the instant of choice, but the instant before, in which these poems take place. If that denies Hotel Lautreamont the chance to affirm any one view of life or mind, it is, surely, a small price to pay for lines, views, forms, surprises, ideas and indeed whole poems so various, comic, sad, elegant and moving as the many in Ashbery's new book...