Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old law which declares eight holidays legal equivalents of Sundays, will not affect traditional late parietals the night before a holiday. In all the houses definitely not holding dances, girls will be permitted until midnight on both Friday and Saturday nights...
...issues of class and of the Common Market will both affect the electorate profoundly, but of all the party leaders, Mr. Gaitskell alone seems to be aware of it. Mr. Macmillan retreats inscrutably into Downing Street; Jo Grimond of the Liberals congratulates himself on the results of by-elections, tears down the other parties, and constructs a preposterous domestic platform. "Nice people, the British," Mr. Gaitskell imagined other nations saying shortly, "easy-going, kindly, tolerant; they have had a glorious past. The only trouble is their stagnation--somehow they have lost out, lost their dynamic." His is a very palpable...
Neither God nor politicians are wildly popular. College girls are moved by causes -sit-ins are big-but not by presidential campaigns. They intellectualize religion, but cannot quite feel it; "I believe in God, but it doesn't affect my life," says one Radcliffe senior. Except among Roman Catholics, churchgoing is erratic, especially after Saturday night dates...
Ginsburg stated that the Peace Corps aimed to provide a particular service requested by a nation. It also gives the American volunteers an understanding of another culture and through a "feed-back affect" spreads this understanding to other Americans...
...herd of goats to be doled out when the pregnant lioness could not hunt for herself (Joy Adamson is sentimental about all kinds of animals, but she is a realist, and pet lions do not eat canned cat food). Elsa's life in the bush did not affect her extraordinary trust of Mrs. Adamson; the author tells, for instance, of being allowed to feel the lioness' abdomen during the pregnancy, and records that Elsa often would stay in camp for a day or two at a time, while her exasperated mate roared for her in the bush...