Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...than in any of the hard-swilling Western nations. Commonly called mizu shobai, or "water business." it is a $40 billion enterprise, enhanced by 100,000 conveniently located vending machines dispensing hard liquor, beer and sake 24 hours a day. "In Japan," explains a Tokyo businessman, "alcohol plays the role of psychiatry in the West. Instead of analysis, we get rid of our inhibitions with a few drinks. I think we would explode without it." Kazuo Shimada, a psychologist, agrees: "If they were forced to go on the wagon, many Japanese would simply go bang." Yet another survey discloses that...
...cause, yes, an avalanche to come down on their heads. "I'm about sixth or seventh place in the cast," says Namath. But soon he will get to be No. 1, as the star of his own television series, NBC's Waverly Wonders. Namath's role: a high school basketball coach struggling with a chronically losing team...
Levinson has consciously tried to avoid the pitfalls of so many other studies of men in their worlds: a too-narrow focus of research. Psychologists tend to study the ego's changing role and function (Erikson) or a man's changing defense mechanisms to deal with the world (Harvard's George E. Vaillant); sociologists focus on men's work or class or world-view; anthropologists on the nature of his ties to his family, community, religion, or nation. Levinson, however, is anxious to put his new discipline on a more secure, if ambitious, footing; he wants to study what...
...carrot. A mentor, an older man who helps the growing adult fit into his society and who aids his development in many ways, may become critical in the phase of Early Adulthood. Besides the obvious functions he serves--integrating the adult into his career, teaching him, giving him a role model, smoothing the way for him, fostering his intellectual and moral development--the Mentor believes in the Dream, and in the dreamer, and makes the adult believe in himself. In a sense, he cleans off the mental carrot so it will be ready for consumption...
...there not similar, emotion-laden narratives depicting accounts of terrorist action where Israel played the role of the massacrist and the Palestinians were the innocent victims...