Word: affectivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that doesn't know in one split second,' Floyd said, 'whether he can commit treason against his country in my opinion is not qualified and doesn't have the right to sit in the house of representatives voting on legislation that would affect my life or any other Georgian's life...
...Apologies. In a 2½-hour session in the spacious ranch-house living room, the Governors got some complaints off their chests. Most were irritated that they are neither consulted nor informed about federal programs that affect their states. At the press conference, Johnson pooh-poohed any talk that there was a critical chasm between him and the Governors. But, he added: "We Democrats have never been known to suppress our differences. We do have different viewpoints on different programs. They have made that abundantly clear in their respective states. I made it abundantly clear that...
...proposal, to be presented to Dean Ford and the Committee on Educational Policy next week, would not only affect students who have not satisfied the language requirement before entering Harvard...
...destroy North Viet Nam if it were in our interests," said Brown. "Our Government does not believe that it would be." The U.S. has purposely avoided attacking certain targets because they are too close to urban residential areas, would cause suffering among the civilian population or would not significantly affect the enemy's short-term ability to continue fighting. Brown warned that "all of these targets are hostages to U.S. air power" and that the U.S. could easily increase that power to a much higher level. For now, though, the bombing is likely to go on reverberating over...
Nobody yet knows how mergers of this kind will affect trade-book publishing, though many bookmen are pessimistic. Roger Straus, president of Farrar, Straus & Giroux, envisions huge factories that will turn out books like sausages. Big publishers "are through as serious influences in literature," he says. William Jovanovitch of Harcourt, Brace disagrees. He believes, with many other experts, that television, for instance, "has increased the use of books by contributing to an ambiance of information, art and instruction. Greater assimilation of information means greater literacy, and greater literacy means greater use of the language. And that's good...