Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beckoned newspaper ads last week. The commodity on sale: a magazine article offering "penetrating guidance" to "anxious" husbands and wives with "secret worries." What lifted many eyebrows was not the subject of the article but the magazine that touted it: the staid Reader's Digest (world circ. 20 million), which for most of its 36 article-packed, circulation-enriching years has delicately skirted the subject it still refers to in chuckly anecdotes as "the facts of life...
...father invited Mies to come to Manhattan, signed him up for the building. There were some anxious hours when it developed that Chicago's Mies had no license to practice in New York, did not have the high-school education required for a license, and refused to take the prescribed examination. Red tape was cut to get the great architect a New York license. To help him through the intricacies of the city's building code, and to detail the interiors, Mies called in Philip Johnson as his collaborator...
...simulated gaiety and affection that they showed their customers, 18 were frigid with them, and ten were incapable of orgasm in any relationship. Some of the less frigid still needed debasement to achieve satisfaction: "I can only be excited by a man who despises me." All the pros were anxious and depressed; no fewer than 15 had tried suicide, many of them several times; one succeeded on the sixth try. Of the six he analyzed, Dr. Greenwald could report proudly that five quit the racket (though that was not their aim in seeking therapy, but relief from anxiety and depression...
...neighbors (TIME, Oct. 7), Dilworth gave his full approval to Quaker groups who were helping the besieged family with food and moral support ("If we lost that one," says he, "we would never again be able to get another foothold there"). He also admits that "we're mighty anxious to get Negroes into the Main Line. We'd be happy to finance a house for somebody...
...rarely sees his five sons, four of whom work for his companies. Son George, 34, a vice president of Tidewater, recently flew to Paris to see his father, with whom he has spent only six weeks since the first year of his life. He was understandably anxious. Said he: "Mr. Getty is the smartest businessman I know. Coming to see him is like a visit to Mount Olympus." Getty's youngest son, Timothy Christopher, 12, who is recovering from a series of eye operations, lives at the Pierre with his mother, Louise Lynch Getty; Getty talks with...