Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Summer school enrollment soars to 20,000. Administrators attribute the dramatic increase to Harvard's reputation and quality of instruction. Other observers, however, suggest the increase is due to the increased admission of high school students struggling to get into the college and to a surge of interest in Ukranian studies...
...Robinette, aghast at what he had unleashed: "Lord, Lord, get me out of this mess." Happily, someone did. State Highway Commissioner Charles L. Miller suddenly announced a $500,000, one-lane bridge for Vulcan, to be built within a year. All of which caused the New York Times to suggest, tongue in cheek, that if the Soviets were truly interested in extending foreign aid to U.S. communities, New York City would be a far more worthy challenge than Vulcan...
...disastrous revival at Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, Lynn Redgrave proves woefully incapable of that. She has the inspiring warmth of an undraped mannequin in a store window. Her metallic high-pitched voice seems to issue from some implanted accordion, and her stance and gestures suggest those of a badly coordinated puppet. She seems to want to hear her heavenly "voices," but perhaps the decibel count onstage is too high for that...
...Administration. It is a finely honed reflection of Jimmy Carter's innermost thinking on the goals of U.S. foreign policy. None of the men who helped develop the Carter paper- Brzezinski, Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance - will reveal its contents, other than to suggest that it is a distant vision of the world progress and tranquillity we all share. It is noteworthy that there is such a plan, but even more important that the men who have read it believe the Administration is moving in the right direction, and is even on schedule...
Three members of last year's Experimentation Review Board recommended to the Cambridge Biohazards Committee that the committee conduct a broad review of the safety of all recombinant DNA research in Cambridge, and also suggest that it look into the safety of other forms of biological research...