Word: selfing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course was held at India's Small Industries Extension Training Institute in Hyderabad and lasted two weeks. Everything in the crash curriculum-including games, written assignments and films-was calculated to correct the self-image of men who saw themselves as pawns rather than agents of change. This was, the authors write, "in great contrast to the traditional strategy of trying to show how some ways of doing things are better than others in the hope that indirectly and slowly [the businessmen] will decide on some rational basis to do the better things...
...life." At brainstorming sessions-a Western invention that the Indian businessmen took to with great delight-they courted the notion, almost heretical in Indian commerce, that ideas can be traded, like commodities, to the benefit of all. They were required to write their own epitaphs-a statement of self-esteem related more to accomplishment in this world than in the next...
...have proved devastating to the industry. They are prepared by the American Cancer Society and other groups, often with volunteer help from top ad agencies, and they usually have more punch than regular commercials. Cigarette ads must pass the industry's self-policing advertising code, which assures a certain blandness by ruling out appeals to youth and suggestions of athletic or social prowess. Often, pro-and anti-ads appear in startling juxtaposition. The American Tobacco Co. sponsors network broadcasts of NBC-TV's Laugh-In, but viewers can get the antismoking side during local station breaks...
...raised." Hammer carries the passport of that principality. Brought up as a foundling, he becomes an unsettling, sinister figure. Rootless and rich, he is odd in some dreadful way that puts him outside humanity. A haunted, solitary drunk, he seems to epitomize the danger and disorder that lurk in self-preoccupation. A pet cat, or familiar spirit, called Schwartz, suggests that Hammer may be some sort of warlock. But in any case, Hammer sows lechery and malevolence wherever he goes...
...Germans may have the word for it: Weltschmerz. But French writers have a long tradition in it too-a literary bleating of the young in which the gyrations of the ephemeral self and the monumental turnings of the solar system get dizzily confused. J.M.G. Le Clézio is a handsome lad of 29 with sporting initials and a static style who has in recent years been a flashily successful practitioner of that mournful art. His first book, The Interrogation, a kind of Krapp's First Tape, won France's third most prestigious literary award, the Prix Renaudot...