Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Nixon knows only too well the uses of the vice presidency, and he lets Agnew do for him what he himself did for Dwight Eisenhower. "My political function," Agnew says, "is to forage out in advance of existing policies and generally to project the philosophy of the Administration." The personal equation helps. "We have a similar background," Agnew observes. "I can easily identify. I have not yet misconstrued the President's intentions. Of course, this is a high-risk activity, though I haven't yet fallen off the bridge...
Comes the revelation. For the first time since the 1920s, Russia has produced a sociological study on sexual habits and deportment. Entitled "Youth and Marriage," the report was researched by two Leningrad social scientists, A.G. Kharchev and S.I. Golod, who may well become the Communist Kinseys. From their project emerges a plea for a more rational and open treatment of sex in Soviet society...
...black is beautiful" idea, conceived to instill a new sense of racial pride in Negroes, has had a practical consequence undreamed by its authors. Black women, now more determined than ever to project an image of loveliness, are turning in increasing numbers to a beauty aid that they seldom used in the past: cosmetics. Responding eagerly to the demand, at least five firms have begun producing cosmetics designed specifically for black skin-the field has already grown into a multimillion-dollar business...
...young film makers (Ryan Listman and Frank Cavestani), seeking money to make a movie about Lenny Bruce, agree to make a quickie pornographic movie for $10,000. They hurl themselves into the project with such enthusiasm that one of their girl friends (Joy Wener) becomes unnerved. After an orgiastic night of filming in a loft decorated with silks and exotic lighting effects, Ryan has a bitter fight with Joy. She accuses him of enjoying the pornography; he claims that she "puts him uptight." He finally walks out, and she is left to weep alone...
Wright has served as Baptist chaplain to Harvard and Radcliffe, and is a member of the boards of the West Medford Community Center, the Cambridge Community Schools Commission, and the Project on Services to Unwed Mothers...