Word: alterity
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With nearly one-third of the present House in the Class of 1950, the main trend of personalities will probably not change much next fall, and new members won't alter things. But it's a pleasant place to live...
...psychological effect Mr. Kenton's music has had on his listeners and his continued record-breaking attendance marks are undeniable proofs that present progressive-minded people are eagerly looking for something fresh and invigorating in music. If Mr. Kenton's "progressive jazz" can substitute for, or even alter, the present uninteresting, uninspiring style of obsolete music, more power...
...Chinese problem unfortunately has become somewhat clouded by demands for internal reform. Desirable as such reform may be, its importance is but secondary to the issue of civil strife now engulfing the land, and the two issues are as impossible of synchronization as it would be to alter the structural design of a house while the same was being consumed by fire...
...movie camera is unique as a recorder of actual existence. The man who uses the camera correctly in this field resists the temptation to alter or improve on the actual. Rather, he perceives and communicates the poetic vitality of what is there for the camera...
...take him to his post as U.S. Ambassador to Poland, few Americans yet realized that Lane's mission was doomed to the futilities of diplomatic protests. But no Big-Three doubletalk, no top-level deals, not even thick applications of F.D.R.'s charm on Stalin, could alter the inescapable fact: the Russians were...