Word: reaffirming
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...dedicated to the potential event. Wedding is a collection of such talismen. These photos were intended as documentation of an important moment, but, more significantly, they were created to evoke a mood, inspire some faith. Like votive offerings at a shrine, they do not merely record a commitment, they reaffirm and even manufacture that commitment. Pictures of a marriage are magic, or at least those involved want them...
...accused the Chinese of meddling in U.S. domestic politics. "Mao doesn't know what New Hampshire means, much less where it is," said a U.S. Government Sinologist. Most China watchers agree that Mao wants to reaffirm, as part of his political will and testament, the Shanghai communique of 1972 that promised "normalization" of relations between the U.S. and China. By inviting Nixon, Mao is using him to underscore Chinese impatience with the slow progress toward full diplomatic recognition of Peking and with the Ford Administration's emphasis on U.S.-Soviet detente...
TIME Correspondent Strobe Talbott reported that President Ford plans this week to set clear limits on the agencies' authority. For example, he will reaffirm the prohibition against domestic undercover work by the CIA. Presidential Counselor John O. Marsh worked through the weekend polishing the President's reform program, but the broad outlines were set by Ford last week on the basis of five months of research by his staff. Ford intends to unveil measures that will preserve much of the agencies' structure but subject them to more Executive oversight and control. Highlights...
...deliberate effort to present the American public with a fait accompli. Although American intervention has now been made public, Ford and Kissinger continue to repudiate any notion of democratic participation in foreign policy decision making by their use of discretionary funds to aid anti-MPLA factions. The House should reaffirm the Senate's opposition to such aid in its upcoming session, and Congress should take severe measures to prevent American interference in Angola. Such steps would be a key move toward recapturing control over foreign policy from administrators not responsible to the American public...
Similarly, Hollywood films during the Depression present the conflicts that wracked American society but ultimately reaffirm the American Dream. Films such as De Sica's A Brief Vacation and Scorcese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore pose the issues of women's oppression but resolve them romantically. The key to such films' failure to transcend the problems they raise lies in their use of the stereotyped plots and characters of romantic comedy and tragedy. The logic of these genres leads either to a happy ending brought about by Fortune or an unhappy ending brought about by Fate; in either...