Word: abjectness
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...arrest last week. Yet the House of Detention was not wholly unfamiliar to "Kaku-san," as he was once affectionately nicknamed. In 1948, as a brash young member of the Japanese Diet, he spent three weeks there on charges stemming from a coal industry bribe scandal. His return in abject disgrace brought to full circle the most extraordinary political career in postwar Japan...
...spot on the ticket appears to be increasingly within the grasp of a talented and tainted Texan who can outdazzle either Republican-and just possibly the Democratic ticket as well. The prospect of John Connally as a candidate for Vice President evokes emotions ranging from outright delight to abject despair, for few politicians engender less neutrality than Connally, the millionaire international lawyer, former Governor and Treasury Secretary whose assets and liabilities are formidable...
...according to the analysis of New York Psychiatrist Leslie Farber. In this collection of essays, Farber dubs our times the age of the disordered will and he proceeds to draw a wickedly accurate and amusing portrait of contemporary Everyman, caught between his twin illusions of total potency and abject impotence...
...some cannibal friends wash ashore on "his" island, Crusoe dispatches them one by one. Soon only Friday is left, and Crusoe is about to slay him when the black man instinctively adopts the one pose that will save him from the white man's wrath: he becomes abject. He pretends to have been the prisoner of his traveling companions. Crusoe, mollified, saves Friday for servitude...
...years ago were the golden days between Nixon's 1971-72 "garden variety" recession and the unheralded advent of the '74-75 abject slump. Rick Mendelson '75, whom everyone describes as "a very bright and high-powered guy," had just become editor of the Harvard Political Review, bringing with him the seeds of a cultural revolution. Mendelson's predilictions were towards graphics, promotion, and marketing, as were those of his associate editor, Tim Bliss '75. They thought that with a slicker-looking product the Review could appeal to a much wider audience than just the Harvard wastebaskets where...