Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight marriages in the U.S. is a potentially dangerous mismatch, biochemically speaking. In these 200,000 or more marriages a year, the wife lacks the Rh factor present in most blood and is Rh-negative; the husband has the factor and is Rh-positive. The difference does not usually affect the couple's first baby. But if the baby is Rh-positive, there is a progressively increasing chance of trouble in later pregnancies. In such cases, the Rh-negative mother develops an immunity to future Rh-positive babies and may send enough damaging antibodies into the developing child...
John Cassavetes plays Guy as much too blah a character to have done what the script says he did, and Ralph Bellamy behind a full grey beard seems hardly sinister enough to be Dr. Sapirstein, the occultivated obstetrician. These minor lapses, though, do not seriously affect the bewitching qualities of the film-which, in addition to being superb suspense, is a wicked argument against planned parenthood...
...cannot be enforced constitutionally. Following the reasoning of the U.S. Supreme Court, which found similar defects in tax laws dealing with guns and gamblers, Theis held that enforcement of the marijuana tax violated the constitutional guarantee against selfincrimination. But the small victory for pot boosters does not affect stiffer state and federal marijuana laws that specify fines and sentences from one year to life imprisonment for possession or sale of the drug...
Agnes Mongan, now Curator of Drawings, is expected to occupy the director's office for a year. Who the next long-term director will be and how he and the projected expansion will affect the Fogg are anybody's guess...
...reports and the actions of the Overseers do affect undergraduates and younger alumni. The most significant example of this is the Overseer's role in selecting a new president of Harvard. Especially in view of events on other campuses this spring, it would be most undesirable for Harvard's next president to be chosen without any consideration of younger opinion. Norr's election wil help to ensure that this opinion will be heard...