The security of the power structure has always taken precedence over the security of everyday citizens: the affirmation or consolidation of the state has subsequently rested on a culture that placed great importance on the maintenance of public order and on the gathering of political intelligence.
"I say positive affirmations everyday nine times a day because it sticks in your head.
The anecdote was a favorite of Mann, whose artist-hero Tonio Kroeger's almost comical attempts to become "normal" end in an affirmation of everyday life which is also absurdly sentimental.
The apparent connection between personal passion and public place inspires a beguiling romp into environmental psychology, which then leads to nine couples whose first encounter (and illuminating, sometimes bittersweet postscripts) represent "an affirmation of the everyday miracle that is New York".
(In a sense, Trump's line echoes the argument that same-sex marriage was somehow a threat to the institution of marriage, rather than an affirmation of its everyday value).
"The Story of a Marriage" is a sentimental, overwritten, overcalculated novel that nevertheless proves moving in the end, pulling all its prevarications and flourishes into an affirmation of the unideal everyday as it was experienced fifty years ago and, possibly, as it is even now.
Technology-based interventions that include computer and communication technology offer potentially strong support in the areas of prevention and detection, managing everyday life, social connectedness, and identity affirmation (McClendon et al 1998; Mynatt et al 2001; Intel Corporation 2003; Morris and Lundell 2003).
Mind you, this isn't the Stuart Smalley "doggone it, people like me!" style of self-affirmation, but it's easily practiced in everyday life, says lead author J. David Creswell, an associate professor of psychology at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
"In Praise of Copying" is not an investigation of the ethical dilemmas of copying but a Stein-like affirmation of the mimesis that happens everywhere and everyday.
