Word: apted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even in Hitler's Germany the infatuation for medals, titles and uniforms never reached the peak it has in the proletariat's promised land. On the kolkhozy (collective farms), a visitor is apt to meet a Znatnaya Doyarka (Distinguished Cow Milking Woman). One of the latest additions to the new Soviet aristocracy is Honorable Coal Miner E. P. Baryshnikov, whose picture (see cut) was published in a recent issue of Ogonek (Small Flame...
...this Diderot . . . People of the lowest sort, people who do not even own their own houses, who live on the fourth floor . . ." Today, except for a few scholars, people talk a good deal less about Diderot than they do of Rousseau. Students who learn of Diderot in college are apt to classify him as one of the great French Encyclopedists, learn too little of his novels, plays and essays. If they remembered him at all it was as a minor beam in France's 18th Century age of enlightenment. Last week, Denis Diderot was having his innings...
...rather like the shock treatment given to human psychotics. Another cure is to isolate part of the calculator's mechanism, hoping to cut off the source of trouble. This is "like the lobotomies which brain surgeons perform. Lobotomies sometimes work (for both machine and brain) but are apt to reduce, in both cases, the subject's judgment...
...Journal of the American Medical Association, benign nervousness is a lot more common than the nasty, malignant (psychoneurotic) kind. One way to tell the difference: the patient with the benign kind is pleased if he is told there's nothing wrong with him physically; the true neurotic is apt to be disappointed...
Department store executives in the know have issued one caution this Christmas. If possible, don't guess her size. They've found from experience that men who persuade salesgirls to model their purchase "Because she's just your size" are apt to underestimate their lady's weight by a healthy five or ten pounds...