Where a role for health-care professionals was acknowledged, it was often accompanied with affirmations that health-care professionals could not disclose information to the family.
It rolled off my tongue in meetings, bars, and protests pronounced with an affirmation that masked my ignorance of its true meaning.
The film won a truckload of Oscars (including for Best Picture and Best Director), and I think that they were all delivered for the final scene, a group rendition (led by Meryl Streep) of "God Bless America," which papers over the torment with a seemingly patriotic affirmation that is actually biliously ironic.
There may be a lesson in this, but it probably has more to do with the affirmation that people find in accounts of being persecuted and, maybe, with the allure of secret decoder rings than with "The Twelve Days of Christmas".
What the negation removes is not the state of affairs, but the affirmation that goes along with it.
As Lahav observes, it was both one of the worst and best weeks of his life; a disaster which also brought with it affirmation that Gecko really is loved and valued.
They pay apt attention to two white police officers' beating and arrest of Davis outside Birdland, in 1959 but they miss a few remarkable aspects of the incident, including the instant protest of a crowd that blocked traffic, and the remarkable declaration of the judge who dismissed charges against Davis with the affirmation that there's no such crime as resisting an illegitimate arrest.
Today, however, there is a growing apprehension about what America's allies may have committed themselves to when they invoked, for the first time, Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, with its affirmation that "an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all".
There will be time to relitigate A-Rod's past – oh, will there be time to relitigate A-Rod's past, especially as 2021 approaches – but as the book closes on his career, it closes amicably, and with an affirmation that Alex Rodriguez is, was, and will always be a New York Yankee.
