Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indeed all the Middle East. Said Dayan: "All the old concepts-proximity talks, shuttles-have fallen by the wayside and we have now been confronted with the need to decide, not just on technical matters but on the very substance of issues. We will have to decide what to suggest, where to give up more and where to give up less...
With a few exceptions, the package was similar to the proposals the undergraduates made in the beginning. They suggest the CRR include six Faculty members, one senior tutor and six students. One of the Faculty members would serve as chairman and vote only in case...
...common courtesy to leave a copy of something around from which I could steal some listings, so I suggest you look elsewhere. Now, I'm going to put a bunch of names in "Bold Face" type to make it look like I've put listings at the end of this piece. (So when Tony gives the column the weekly "cursory check" he'll think all's well...) Frank Sinatra, The Captain and/or Tennille, Samuel Huntington, Bill Blass, (ha ha ha ha ha Orpheum, Music Hall, December 12, ha ha ho ho ho, December 14, ho ho) Daryll Hall and John...
...refugees say death is everywhere. Seemingly simple misdeeds such as fraternization outside one's immediate family, being awake after 9 p.m., falling asleep at the nightly political lecture are punished with death. Every month about 250 villagers die from starvation, but to eat a chicken or suggest killing a cow is treason. Says Soeung Meayeat, 28, who escaped six months ago: "There is nothing to do when parents die and children are taken away except wait for death so you can see them again...
Does this suggest that Americans are incapable of sacrifice for the national interest in the energy crisis? Not necessarily. Observers as far back as Alexis de Tocqueville have noted the typical American's willingness to yield self-interest for the common good. Yet the U.S., like every known democracy, tends to put off dealing with crisis until a bit after the eleventh hour. "Americans," as Dean Rusk once said, "have a way of doing at the end of the day what they don't want to do at noon...