Word: mask
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visitors inevitably bring Western values with them. For instance, missionaries in Asia expect newly baptized Christians to take personal blame for their actions; that is not an easy lesson for people raised in neo-Confucian societies that emphasize group responsibility. New Christians, whose cultures have taught them to mask emotions or express them indirectly, have difficulty accepting the evangelical emphasis on a public affirmation of faith...
Livelier preppy reading lies in Items from Our Catalog, a parody of the L. L. Bean mail order guide. The booklet offers such essential items as a Norweigan bulletproof sweater, a deerskin dieter's mask and the state of Maine--price tag $76,000,000 plus $3.20 postage. Lest you fear such outdoorsy materialism is not in the holiday spirit, note that the catalog also offers a down yarmulke and Thinsulite papal vestments...
...theme: "How can African man live at IBM without losing himself?" The answer: he cannot. They conclude that even where overt discrimination does not exist, black managers feel they must not only outperform their white competitors to get ahead, but also hide their racial identity behind the mask of the organization man. As a result, less accommodating or more outspoken blacks do not get promoted, and companies are deprived of their particular viewpoints and skills...
...were other similarities. As in Stalin's last years, Kremlin iconographers labored to hide the ravages of age and disease. His portraits were meticulously airbrushed to darken his gray hair, to erase his wrinkles, to sharpen his jawline. Sound engineers who monitored his broadcasts used electronic magic to mask his slurred speech, possibly the result of a stroke. The disguises fell through when Brezhnev was placed in the harsh glare of cameras that could not be controlled by party discipline. At his meeting with President Carter in Vienna in June 1979, he stumbled and nearly fell while descending...
Allen S. Weiner's piece "Behind the Mask" (Nov.8) attempts, in a dispassionate way, to remind readers that anti-Semitism may motivate some of the criticism of the Israeli government in the wake of this past summer's events...