Word: adopters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foreign students' chauvinism has biased their palates. Most students, after all, have left their families and friends at home, determined to try Western ways, to adopt Western habits. But affinities for certain foods and repulsion to others are so much a part of you by the time you're in college, several students suggest, it's difficult to alter them. "I came here to meet Westerners," Indian Rekha Nimgade says, and she feels so strongly about their companionship that the presence of Westerners is about the only thing that could drive her into a pizza parlor...
West characterized Patty's reaction as the "survivor syndrome," saying that she felt her only hope of living "lay in winning acceptance by or becoming part of the S.L.A." Patty was forced to adopt in part the psychological defense mechanism of "dissociation"-separating her acts from her true personality. West said he found no evidence that Patty actually believed any of the S.L.A. views she advocated-"the phrases she mouthed" were simply things she had to say. As "Tania," said West, Patty did what the S.L.A. asked...
Hired as William Butler Yeats' secretary, he helped persuade the poet to adopt the direct, plain manner of his last and greatest period. Ezra raised money to support T.S. Eliot and, in the most celebrated editing feat of the century, transformed The Waste Land from a fascinating mess into a masterpiece. James Joyce admitted that without Pound's wheeling and dealing to put bread on his table, he could never have written Ulysses...
...systematically rebuffed. The macadam mob--taxi-dispatchers, hookers, pornographic movie-house vendors--looks at him with sullen, suspicious eyes. The claustrophobic routinization of their lives, the daily bombardment of the senses, has forced them into the defensive position of "cool". They are wary, detached from their experience; some adopt swaggering, arrogant personae, others merely become dead to the world--all of them are irreversibly divorced from their emotions...
...were both in jail, had invited him to join his organization. Hall said that he declined the offer, but spoke to DeFreeze after the bank robbery. DeFreeze, he said, told him that he had had three ways of handling Patty: to kill her; to turn her loose; or to adopt the course that he chose-"put her in a position where she'd become a part of the gang-'front her off to where the FBI, CIA, whoever, would be looking for her as well as them, and the only people she could look to help her would...