Word: affections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEUROTIC. Some modern atheists are unquestionably neurotics - typically, the young idealist whose religious fervor turns into bitter anticlericalism after an unhappy experience in a seminary. Lepp has found that psychology can help cure such atheists of their emotional hostility toward religion, but will not affect their unbelief. "It is not in the psychologist's power either to give or to destroy faith," he warns. "This belongs to a metapsychical domain which the theologians call grace." Atheists by and large, he says, are not particularly neurotic...
...grandparents know it too-and quite a few businessmen are in on the secret. The small army of researchers who analyze, appeal to, and reckon with children say that the 40 million Americans aged two to twelve strongly influence the spending of one consumer dollar in seven, and affect family purchases of everything from cars to soap. "Once children become impressed," sighs a Chicago advertising executive, "they are very successful naggers." Buy Me a Mushroom. To impress its Esso trademark on the youngsters, Humble Oil mails out thousands of bird houses, coloring books and popsicle molds among its "gifts...
Jazz fits in amidst virtually any surroundings because it is a primarily personal rather than primarily formal kind of music. There is another side to the coin: since jazz is based upon improvisation and the inspiration of the moment, the environment in which the musicians play is bound to affect their music. The hospital-room atmosphere of a recording studio can help keep a musician's high spirits in check, just as a Monday-night jam session at Birdland can bring them...
Other factors besides the convivial atmosphere of the Festival affect the music that is played there. So many performers must take the stand during a given Festival concert that none of them gets a chance to play for more than an hour; some have less than thirty minutes. For a musician who is a slow starter, a tiny time segment can be fatal. Even groups which swing from the moment they start to play need time to establish their own mood. The size of the crowd precludes any real give-and-take between audience and artist beyond the mass-meeting...
...Today," says Diebold, "we have a technology that can brutally affect the whole guts of the publishing business. It is a very explosive situation for all connected with it." But publishers, who expected long, loud complaints from their unions, have not yet found massive resistance to their plans. The International Typographical Union has vowed only to force gradual rather than radical change, and to slow down the job-robbing effects of automation. Stereotypers have started signing contracts covering jobs on automated plate casters. In Toronto, newspaper owners have written a clause into their new contract with the Newspaper Guild providing...