Word: apts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a Japanese prepares to make a wish, he is apt to buy a one-eyed doll modeled after the famed Buddhist monk Daruma, who founded the Zen sect 1,500 years ago. Then, if his wish is fulfilled, he completes the Daruma's missing eye as a symbol of gratitude for otherworldly intervention. Last week, in the Tokyo headquarters of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, Premier Eisaku Sato dipped a sumi brush into an inkstone and with swift strokes daubed in the dark right eye of his Daruma. "The eyes," he remarked when he had finished...
...always acknowledged sensitivity for all parties. The subject of broken families raises the specter of welfare cheating charges, an issue to which Newburgh, New York, gave its name, but which Governor Reagan has brought to a point of high political style. Further, Negro leaders and activists are apt themselves to come from the most solid, even rigid family backgrounds and probably have real difficulty pecreiving or acknowledging the realities of lower-class life. And so on, down a long line of reasons, any one of which is sufficient to explain why, even when the subject is broached...
...three weeks instead of the customary six in which to campaign. The politicking got off to a turbulent start when toughs at a rally of Bustamante's Jamaica Labor Party began tossing rocks and hit the Minister of Development and Welfare on the head. The politicking is also apt to get pretty turbulent within Bustamante's own party, where a four-way fight is shaping up to pick a successor to the old man as Labor Party leader...
Time was when a young clergyman could expect his first pulpit to be a rural clapboard church whose faithful accorded him and his preaching unquestioning respect. Today, he is more apt to find himself confronted with spiritual drift in suburbia or explosive hatred in an urban ghetto-and every-where by growing skepticism about the value of religion. Last week the American Association of Theological Schools published a study that bluntly accused most Protestant seminaries of being ill-equipped to train clergymen for ministering to today's world...
...before, in 1941, for Inside Latin America. But he went back because he is well aware that North Americans know all too little about their nearest neighbors and sometimes seem to care even less. "Ignorance," says Gunther, "plays a large role in this. What we do know we are apt to know wrong...