Word: reaffirm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration and Corporation were not afraid of Harvard students and faculty they would accept the kind of hearing I suggests. I believe they will not accept such a hearing. So I appear today simply to submit this statement and to reaffirm our intention. We will not be intimidated. We will stay and fight. And we will fight...
...Faculty also tried to deal with one of the issues behind the sit-in--student attendance at Faculty meetings. After tabling a motion to reaffirm the traditional closed-meeting polity, the Faculty decided to spend its January 21 meeting discussing possible changes in the policy...
...essential decisions by calling mass meetings, now cuts off the people from the campaigning by relying heavily of television ad men. It never disturbs the deliberations of the Senate by calling for demonstrations of mass-support from the people. In 1832 President Andrew Jackson called on the people to reaffirm his decision to terminate the charter of the United States Bank. But, an equally complicated decision in this decade, such as the deployment of the ABM, would never be appealed to the people through the party process...
...last weekend, everyone in rock had read Rolling Stone Magazine's special issue on groupies, i.e., the girls who chase rock bands. The effect of the story, of course, was to reaffirm in the rock player's minds just how desirable they are. I think this knowledge ultimately confuses them, but they really like being wanted...
What happened on Tuesday night was that for the first time that anyone could remmeber, a President returned to Congress to reaffirm the special system by which those few hundred men live their lives. As President, Johnson had been forced to struggle against the prerogatives of that system, and during the last two years Congress had won out. Its victory, of course, was purely destructive: it blocked Johnson's appointments and demolished his programs. But the important thing is that Congress won, and on Tuesday night Johnson returned, humbled, to seek the comfort of that closed society...