Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last few years, hallucinogenic drugs have had a greater affect on popular music than such other noteworthy events as the escalation of That War and the invention of the 100 mm cigarette have had on the American public in general...
...perennial parietal fight has this year been joined to a new issue--the role Harvard students should have in the decision-making of the College. Some student leaders and activists have seized upon parietals as a symbol of students' general lack of influence over the decisions that affect them. The rhetoric of student power, once common only in the circles of Students for a Democratic Society, has recently dominated the meeting of the traditionally subdued Harvard Undergraduate Council...
Some prominent Negroes saw the wedding as an event of major social import. James Meredith proclaimed it "perhaps the most significant thing to date in Government to affect in a favorable way the racial situation in the Linked States." "To me," said John Johnson, publisher of Ebony, "the marriage is a measure of America's maturity, and it might help us in the eyes of the world." Judge Vaino Spencer, a Los Angeles municipal court judge who viewed the marriage both as a Negro and a woman, observed: "That two young, attractive, well-educated people, both from such nice...
Despite their rivalry, both organizations seemed to interpret the mood of U.S. teachers in similar terms. "We have a new type of more aggressive, more alert teacher all over this nation who wants to help determine the policies that affect him," declared N.E.A. President Braulio Alonso. "This is the beginning of a real revolution in the teaching profession." Teachers, echoed Albert Shanker, president of New York's United Federation of Teachers, a local of the A.F.T., "have to have power-this is a revolutionary change...
...Alcohol is absorbed rapidly into the bloodstream. Its most pronounced physiological effects are on the brain. When the blood contains .05% ethyl alcohol, the result is depression of the uppermost level of the brain, compulsiveness and a loss of inhibitions: .10% can affect the lower, motor area of the brain, impairing control of the body: .20% may cause an individual to need help walking; .30% can make him fall into a stupor...