Word: gradualism
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...acting in The Assault is excellent. Van Uchelen gives the young Anton the right mixture of wide-eyed horror and stunned silence, while de Lint successfully portrays the gradual transformation wrought by the stifled memories of the adult Anton. Kraaykamp is incendiary as the embittered Takes, and van de Ven is surprisingly expressive for an actress who, as the prisoner, must recite her lines in a whisper, with most of her face in darkness...
Parkinsonism, characterized by tremors, stiffness and a gradual loss of muscle control, is caused by the death of brain cells that produce dopamine, a vital neurotransmitter. If the results of the Mexican doctors are repeated, the transplanted cells taken from Baggett's adrenal gland should produce enough dopamine in her brain to alleviate her Parkinson's symptoms. At week's end it was still too early to tell if the operation was successful. But Baggett already knew that she had contributed to medical progress. "All along I felt like the good Lord gave me Parkinson's disease for some reason...
...symptoms had begun in their early 30s for both men. First there was the mild stiffening of limbs and the tremors that mark the onset of Parkinson's disease. Then came the gradual loss of muscle control, leaving them prisoners in their own bodies -- mentally lucid but physically unable to eat, urinate or comb their hair without assistance. Levodopa, the most common treatment for the debilitating illness, had ceased to work for one man and could not be tolerated by the other. Nor were other drugs of use. Facing further deterioration, the two agreed to become guinea pigs...
Given such rigid attitudes toward anything non-Japanese, many experts feel that true kokusai-ka is a long way off. "Japanese culture hasn't changed a bit," says Researcher Kato. "It still persistently keeps anybody different out." Still, Japan's gradual opening cannot be ignored. It may be fleeting, a calculated response to edgy trade partners, or it may be enduring. Perhaps when the Japanese stop identifying themselves as different from the rest of the world and start seeing themselves as part of it, kokusai-ka will truly flourish...
...helped draft an amicus curiae brief for the Truman Administration. He was prompted by Frankfurter's disclosures to go against his own sense of the proper legal argument and tailor the brief to offer the wavering judges a key compromise: that the court could permit states to take a gradual approach to integration. That tactic was later adopted in a unanimous court ruling that called for integration "with all deliberate speed...