Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scientists widely suggest that the White House could help considerably by turning over a random sampling of a dozen or so of its other secret tapes...
What stands now between Nixon and impeachment, suggest some of the opinion diagnosticians, is a thin tissue of personal well-being felt by most Americans. They still have it pretty good, and they don't want a change. But if too many of them lose their jobs or their mobility or their heat, then their fear and disillusion may be turned with even greater force on the man they see so often in their living rooms, who has disappointed them in so many personal ways...
...November 15 to 18, Greek students and workers tried to restore freedom in Greece. In response, the junta attacked the protestors with American guns and tanks. Official communiques acknowledged thirteen deaths; rumors suggest that the toll was much higher. There were hundreds of casualties. Thousands were arrested, and the courts martial began to sentence in closed session. The November 25 coup, instantly recognized by the U.S. government, brought to the forefront of the junta the head of the brutal Military Security Police. The situation seems more threatening for the prisoners--and for all Greeks...
...closing, I would like to suggest that this problem provides one clear case in which the administration should seek a student voice. Those being asked to make the sacrifice have a distinct right to participate in the decision and to shape that decision between viable alternatives. Robert A. Ferguson Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dunster House
...music of each man reflects his religious background. Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) was a Catholic composer; Brahms (1833-1897) was essentially Protestant. In his choral music, Bruckner attempts to suggest the most sacred mysteries of the Catholic faith by manipulating chromatic harmonies which build towards thrilling climaxes. He is grandiose and monumental, as the great baroque churches of Bavaria and Austria are grandiose and monumental. He seeks the feverish ecstasy of the visionary. Brahms, on the other hand, is a more sober, conservative writer, working from a close, personal religion, and with a style virtually baptized in a Protestant ethic...