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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: To Be Continued | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Couch Cult | 9/11/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Will Civilization Survive? | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Will Civilization Survive? | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Maxwell E. Foster jr., | Title: CABBAGES & KINGS | 3/23/1950 | See Source »

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