Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conviction that both Roosevelt and Truman intended to wage atomic diplomacy against the Soviets. He argues that all policymakers connected with the Manhattan Project assumed from its inception that the Bomb would be used to win the war-and that the assumption was never seriously questioned. Sherwin does suggest (almost parenthetically) that neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki had to be destroyed to bring the war to a swift conclusion...
...past years the rate had increased at a steady 1%. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., too, has noted the rise: the death rate among its policyholders for the first half of this year is up 6%, compared with a previous annual rise among policyholders of about 1%. Some experts suggest that the jump may be a fluke-the result of changes in the way cancer death statistics are collected. Others believe it is an indirect result of a drop in the mortality rate from heart disease, leaving more people susceptible to death from cancer. Whatever the cause of the sudden...
Although Harwell admitted that it is difficult to explain why more than 230 students have taken leaves during 1975, he will suggest that there is more to the mystery than simply students who want to "stop, pause and focus on what they are doing...
There is a possible solution to the current standoff between boycotting students and resolute Faculty. The Dunster House committee has asked each House and the Freshman council to send two representatives to a meeting on Tuesday to suggest reforms for the CRR. Specific proposals that emerge from that meeting should be submitted to the Faculty. Those proposals will have to address the questions of hearsay evidence, the right of appeal, the vagueness of the Resolution's wording, and the student-Faculty balance...
...than in the novel--is transformed into a typical 50s romance, while Shrike, Miss Lonelyhearts' misanthropic boss, becomes too intrusively a father figure. Worst of all are Teichmann's omissions. Absent from his script are many of West's most pungent passages; missing too are several key incidents which suggest that Miss Lonelyhearts' real impulse in the face of suffering is to destroy the sufferer--a notion which West insists on but which comes across only indirectly in the play...