Word: suggestibility
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right to know what information is kept about them by credit bureaus- so that it can be corrected- they do not have a similar right to inspect files maintained on them by private investigators, insurance companies and other businesses. Says Linowes: "There were enough stories of data misuse to suggest that the potential for abuse is limitless...
...Open, with Mediterranean Blue, 1974, with its softly respirant field of ultramarine, "depicts" a seascape. But the feeling of look ing at it will be instantly familiar to any one who has looked at the summery Atlantic from a jetty in Provincetown, where Motherwell spends his summers. The blues suggest sea, as the black-and-white configurations of the Spanish Elegies evoke doorways, shadows and leather Guardia Civil hats, without in any way violating their essence as modernist painting...
...economic differences. Women often introduce their maids as "Mrs. Parker"-but they rarely tell the maid, "Mary, meet my friend Georgia." Doormen, among others, usually use Mr. or Mrs. when addressing the tenants, but expect to be called "Frank" or "Reuben." If a tenant in a democratic effusion should suggest that they both use first names, the doorman is often vaguely offended-something in the relationship has been disrupted...
These points are impressive and cannot be left out, but they really do not keynote the season past. Comparisons suggest change, and although records, ratings and attitudes did just that, the axis around which they revolve did not. The machine called Harvard Baseball had different parts in 1977, but the same man operating...
When Western writers speak of relationships, they do not generally mean the contact between anklebones; but perhaps, Baraheni and Doctorow suggest, that is the final relationship in a country where physical power is the only dynamic...