Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, there is a lot of common ground. They are all politicians and not statesmen. This is not to accuse them of venality; rather, they all operate on a personal basis, considering how things affect people; they do not have an obsession with always doing the "right thing," hoping that history will absolve them. Furthermore, all of them are politicians with a special touch for people. They have something more than the rather common ability to shake hands vigorously and say bland things to a disinterested electorate...
Meanwhile McDowell waits... and waits. Men sit all day on porches doing nothing, hardly even talking. Lethargy pervades the town and seems to affect everyone in it. Howell tries to keep up enthusiasm with his claim that "if I can get someone to scotch for me we're gonna win," but to many this talk is losing its inspirational effect. The strikers are already deeply in debt for last fall's pickets, and this debt weighs heavily on them...
...current position of the Board of Assessment would affect the 18- to 20-story apartment building complex for married students which is in its initial stage of construction on the Charles River site about a block below Dunster House...
What role does esthetics play? It must affect everything from the most elementary morphology to the overall form. Composers of electronic music who ignore the need for esthetic awareness in creating elementary sounds produce fundamentally wrong sounds, he said. Again, style depends on esthetic principles of selection and rejection; here most often "the freedom of the composer is the right to be wrong." Finally, esthetics must be applied to the concert life, the only means of communication between the composer and his audience...
...taken over, or forced to accept joint participation by the government. Wiped out are the great landowners; farm holdings are now limited to 100 acres per family. This form of socialism is benign enough. It leaves most of the nation's commerce in private hands and does not affect the overwhelming number of small farmers, who own far less than 100 acres...