Word: alterity
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James Phinney Baxter registered the objections of Williams College officials accompanied by President Howard Jefferson of Clark University; Beancroft Beatley of Simmon College; Chester M. Alter of the Boston University Graduate School; and James R. Killian acting in the absence of President Karl T. Kempton for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
...with Bushido and a knife is better than a man with a Tommy gun and a bellyful of beans. This piece of irrationalism is fundamental. . . . The true failure lies rather in that tenacity of which the Japanese were so very proud-their persistence in error, their unwillingness to alter a plan once it had been set in operation...
...Council does not see fit to invalidate the whole Smoker Committee election, it should at least alter the election methods which permitted such a staggering irregularity. A well thought out and practical election procedure is already in the hands of the Council in the form of the report of its own committee. How long before that report is adopted and put into practice...
...abandonment of war,* we in Japan have emerged from the era of barbarism. . . . If only we had done this willingly ten years ago, history would have taken another course. . . . We are going to alter the definition of a 'great' state. A truly great state is not necessarily big, nor rich, nor quarrelsome with its neighbors. The great state is one which is wise, moral and Godfearing. The ideal we pursue is that of making Japan a state with which God can be pleased...
...Leventhal, in his blundering way, seems dark, powerful and stern, he is a prey to suspicions and frights that are the counterparts of Allbee's. When Allbee, evicted from his furnished room, moves in to live with him, the intimation is hard to miss that Leventhal's alter ego, his subconscious share in the general ills and abandonments of humanity, has come home to roost...