Word: affects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most Japanese, the yakuza are as instantly recognizable as soldiers in an enemy army. They wear their hair in crew cuts, parade about in flashy double-breasted suits, and affect the swaggering gait and tough-guy scowl of characters out of Guys and Dolls. They are the gangster minority in a society that enjoys the lowest crime rate of any industrialized nation in the world (violent crime actually decreased by one-third in Japan over the past 15 years). But unlike mobsters of the West, Japan's yakuza (good-for-nothings) are part of a chivalric tradition that dates...
...open question. The Student Lobby has been set back; the discouraging history of activists' attempts to form all-student government casts further doubt on the viability of these efforts. Still, the administrators who run the University now make only token, perfunctory efforts to consult the students whose lives they affect so deeply. The new groups raise hopes of democratizing the University, a goal so important that these initial steps should not be belittled...
...brief expresses concern that the out-come of the Bakke case may indirectly affect Harvard's admissions practices, although "as an immediate matter a pro-Bakke decision would not affect Harvard, because private institutions do not fall under the 14th amendment," Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said last week...
...idea that has arrived with a rush, catching almost everybody off guard. Concedes a U.S. Labor Department official: "The prospect of more old folks working hit us this month like a bolt from the blue, and quite honestly, we don't know how this is going to affect problems like chronic youth unemployment, sex discrimination and shifting consumer patterns. Nobody knows...
Bobby Deerfield, which might have been subtitled "A Mortality Play," offers an intelligent and quite moving solution to this problem by using the title character's obsessive preoccupation with the possibility of his own demise (and his attempts to deny that preoccupation through a studied lack of affect) as a means of dulling the romantic impulse. Deerfield is a star racing driver whose success is based on a superrationality that requires a cutting off of all emotion. But then a car that is the twin of Deerfield's spins out of control, its driver is horribly hurt...