Word: affectation
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...these men and women? Many of them come from the Midlands, from Yorkshire, Manchester and Birmingham, sporting their distinct regional accents like badges-it is no longer necessary to affect an Oxford accent to get ahead. Some of the new voices have a cockney lilt; from London's own working-class East End come Actors Michael Caine and Terence Stamp, Playwrights Arnold Wesker and Harold Pinter, Television Magnate Lew Grade, Textilemen Joe Hyman and Nikki Seekers. Others breeze in from the coal-mining North Country. There are bluff Yorkshiremen like the P.M. or Actor Peter O'Toole, Albert...
...fears of Harvard coach Bruce Monro that injuries might hurt the team's chances weren't realized. Jan Bollinger's injured ankle didn't seem to affect his play in the least, and sophomore Fife Symington did a good job filling in for the injured Rick Loomis...
...commander ordered his decimated squadron to withdraw from the Battle of Copenhagen, Admiral Nelson clapped a telescope to his blind eye, exclaiming: "I really do not see the signal!" He ended, of course, by winning the battle. His namesake, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, can also affect a blind eye when he chooses, and so far it has served him well...
...court: "The Secretary of the Interior was more than once specifically invited to participate in the proceedings, but for about two years he did nothing." The court swept aside Udall's contention that the FPC had no right to allow private dams on the Snake because they would affect water flow and power output at nine downstream plants in which the Government has invested $1.67 billion. That, ruled the court, "would mean that the existence of one federal dam in a waterway would require that any future dams therein be federally constructed. There is no such requirement...
...which a publication is advertised does not affect its content. The other tests for obscenity, that the work appeals to "prurient interests," that it is "patently offensive," and that it is "without redeeming social value," all refer directly to the substance of the material. But the advertising criterion is a tacit admission by the Court that it cannot draw a clear distinction between a work that is obscene and one that is not on the strength of the material itself. If a book is not "patently offensive," how can the way in which it is publicized make...