Word: aproned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a luxuriant mustache. As a prosecutor in the courtroom, he invariably conjured up the image of a Victorian guardsman. Eyeing his new photographs, it was almost impossible not to visualize him in an old-fashioned cop's helmet, or to picture him as an honest bartender, white apron, gold watch chain and all, stepping out of the gaslit past, with a bung starter in one meaty hand', to scatter the rascals for good...
...experience with Jim left Dorothy with some strong views: "I can't see that a mother's apron strings are much worse than a psychiatrist's couch. Maybe it is unsophisticated and 'naive oversimplification' to handle one's own problems to the best of one's ability . . . But something like this was the basis of mental health for hundreds of years before Adler, Jung and Freud...
...Apron Strings. The essence of capitalism, says Demant, is "the predominance of market relationships over the greater part of the social field." The free market of capitalism pinned a "For Sale" sign on more & more aspects of human life, he feels; the process reached a "climax of social destructiveness when the three foundations of society, which are not by their nature commodities', [were] treated as if they were-namely, labor, land and money...
Capitalism, substituting contracts for the natural ties that had linked people together in church-centered communities, rose triumphant on the wave of "freedom . . . from the apron strings of Mother Theology." Though it was destructive, says Demant, capitalism seemed to be successful for a century or so, because it was still riding upon an earlier period's religious structure and sense of community...
...were told, got the idea it was a wishing well and tossed coins into the water under the wheel. Across from the mill, and separated from it by a piece of tumbling New England hillside, was a blacksmith shop. Once in a while a short man in an apron would come and hammer resonantly on the anvil; then he would go back across the hall to continue his conversation with the flower girl. On the lawn in front of the shop, a Radcliffe freshman was selling horse shoes for the benefit of the Children's Hospital...