Word: boons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they have an insatiable craving." At the opposite end of the spectrum are compulsive spenders, who may become sick if they are forced to save or stop spending. Many of these, says Dr. Kaufman, were overprotected in childhood by an overindulgent parent who guiltily substituted money gifts for the boon of love. Usually one parent was strict, but the other overcompensated for his severity. Other compulsive spenders, who had neither money nor love in childhood, spend selfishly as adults to give themselves a substitute for love...
...that it would be welcome during reading and exam period. At the beginning of the next term, the hours' change could be provisional, depending on the number who continue to study past 10 p.m. For the crowded, hectic weeks ahead at Lamont, however, the extension would be a necessary boon to the undergraduate...
...house, thought it would be doing well to sell 5,000 copies. By now, the first Kinsey report has sold 250,000 copies in the U.S. and Canada, plus thousands in six translations. It outraged many moralists, infuriated not a few scientists who questioned its reliability, and was a boon to radio comedians, who found that Kinsey's name had become an acceptable synonym for sex. One spinster snapped back at Kinsey that his elaborate study only confirmed what she had known all along-that "the male population is a herd of prancing, leering goats...
...poem of hate to the "Remote and ineffectual Don that dared attack my Chesterton" is in the anthologies. Together Belloc and Chesterton created the modern legend of a medieval England vigorous in its earthy Christianity, bluff country squires, boon companions, Catholic piety and roistering taverns. Sang Belloc...
Babies in the Drawer. Another boon is the modified "rooming-in" for babies. Alongside the head of each mother's bed is a drawer-like arrangement with a plate-glass front. Last week, Mrs. Harris reached over, pulled out the drawer, and there in a bassinet snuggled Cynthia, three days old. When she had finished cooing at the baby, Mrs. Harris pushed the drawer back, and Cynthia was again in the semiprivate nursery which she shared with Mrs. Sigmund's baby. When Mrs. Harris closed the drawer, a light flashed on in the central corridor, showing the nurse...