Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adolescent marshmallow bogs of homosexual passion. "Duncan Grant is the full moon of heaven," he wrote to Maynard Keynes, who was one of his earliest friends and confidants. In fact, Keynes was something more. Holroyd discloses that like Strachey, Keynes was a homosexual and a frequent rival for the affections of winsome young men; it was a proclivity that did not affect Keynes's later standing as one of the world's great economists...
Newsweek put them on its cover, and covertly supported them in its special section story. Time published a special essay on student power and concluded that Universities should hurry to include students in the important decisions that affect them. What's most important of all, of course, is that Columbia proved that students, without help from the delicate political immunity that accompanies Northern black demonstrations around the time of Dr. King's death, occupy a position of strength within the University. With the right technique, students can rally enough power to stop the University. Whether this is also enough power...
...striking students of Columbia University, believe in the right of all people to participate in the decisions that affect their lives. An institution is legitimate only if it is a structure for the exercise of this collective right. The people who are affected by illegitimate institutions have the right to change...
Columbia University has been governed undemocratically. An administration responsible only to the trustees has made decisions that deeply affect students, faculty and the community. It has expropriated a neighborhood park to build a gym. It has participated through I.D.A. in the suppression of self-determination throughout the world. It has formulated rules and disciplined students arbitrarily and for the purpose of suppressing justified protest. The actions of the administration in the present crisis have exposed it to students and faculty as the anti-democratic and irresponsible body it has always been...
...damages the brain and causes mental retardation. But Dr. Pauling would go much farther. In Science, he suggests that because of genetic as well as environmental differences, some people may need more of certain vitamins or other essential nutrients than others. If they have a deficiency, it may selectively affect the brain, producing what he calls a sort of "cerebral scurvy" or "cerebral pellagra...