Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lord Denning, Britain's second highest judicial official, the manuscript was the result of an exhaustive, three-month investigation into the security aspects of the great Profumo-Keeler-Ivanov scandal. But the churchgoing, teetotal jurist had also been directed by the Prime Minister to look into "rumors which affect the honor and integrity of public life," meaning gleeful, persistent gossip that several other ministers in Macmillan's government have indulged in profumian revels...
Kenneally's bill was trick legislation, intended to affect only the proposed MTA construction in Codman Square. But a law passed by the General Court would hamper the MTA throughout the Common-wealth, and the bill seemed so certain of passage that the MTA had to act to head...
...geneticists who deal with the chemistry of heredity and seldom see a whole living organism. Classical geneticists work in peculiar zoos, surrounded by cages of mice, jars of insects, cultures of yeasts or bacteria. Population geneticists study groups of wild creatures to see whether changes of environment affect hereditary traits. Practical geneticists use the latest tricks of science to breed new plant and animal strains. Geneticists who study humans are the most frustrated; they can seldom slice up their subjects or mate them experimentally...
...just living by faith. Luther interpreted Paul to mean that the sinner was justified only by a gift of God's grace, which came solely through faith in Christ's redemptive act of dying on the Cross. Because of man's unworthiness, good works could not affect God's favoring glance; they were simply "the fruits of faith" −the response of man to divine favor. "Here I realized," Luther wrote later, "that I had been truly reborn, and had entered Paradise itself through open doors...
Instead, Coles has been off tackling one of the great questions of U.S. education: How, in detail, does desegregation affect children? He may now be the nation's leading expert on the subject. As gifted with words as he is with feelings, Coles last week issued an eloquent report under the auspices of the Southern Regional Council and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith...