Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many of those who buy it now are avid disciples of Psychologist Skinner. Among them: Mr. and Mrs. Walter Farrell of Miami, a couple of earnest young (23 and 17) psychologists, who boxed their daughter Kelly as soon as she was born a month ago. Mrs. Farrell already has cut her baby chores to 1½ hours a day. Farrell, a doctoral candidate at the University of Miami, argues that this makes Kelly all the more loved and avoids "a psychologically negative framework for the mother...
Improving the Breed. As a freelancer, Havemann is thoroughly atypical. His LIFE retainer, along with his articulate typewriter, shelters him from the premonitions of disaster that assail so many of his colleagues. So avid are magazine publishers for Havemann work that he does not even deal through an agent, except for his books...
...state. A later wave of novelists and starkly realistic films bitterly mocked the opportunism and intellectual dishonesty of society as they saw it. Last year, for the first time since Pope and Swift peppered the 18th century Establishment with choleric wit, no-holds-barred political satire found a big, avid audience in theaters, nightclubs and newspaper columns. Even on BBC television, a longtime stronghold of genteel conformity, bright young men fresh from the universities outrageously lampoon such sacred cows as the Church of England, royalty, black African prime ministers and their own Harold Macmillan...
...sophomore at Garfield High, his mother's brother, Koken Ito, came to stay at the Yamasaki home. Ito had earned an architectural degree at the University of California at Berkeley, and when he began working on some drawings in his room, he found himself with an avid fan. Ito, who now lives and practices his profession in Tokyo, still remembers the silent boy solemnly watching as the drawing progressed. Yamasaki remembers too. "The more my uncle talked about architecture, the more I wanted to become an architect." To save up money for schooling, Yamasaki spent five wretched summers working...
...York's Columbia University when she met John King in 1941. She was a dietitian at Grasmere's Moore General Hospital when her husband ran for Governor, quit her job to help organize women volunteers for the campaign, filled in for him on several speaking engagements. An avid reader and ardent gardener, she has an intelligent grasp of problems, but foresees no great change in her way of life now that she is the Governor's wife. New Hampshire has no governor's mansion, so official social life will be limited. Says she simply: "I will...