Word: briefing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, perhaps there would be some mistakes when you boiled down everything you had learned. But I am pretty sure your friends would learn more truth from your brief, direct, unhedged statement than they could in any other...
...rostrum went a brief resolution from Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar, the premier spoilsman of the Senate. It carried diplomatic dynamite. Modestly, it called on the U.S. to acquire...
...Brief psychotherapy" (as against analyses sometimes taking several years), is best known through the Army's technique of using drugs to get battle-shocked soldiers to spit out their troubles (TIME, Feb. 7). Many psychiatrists fear that apparently speedy cures may really have little effect, leave permanent psychic damage. The same objection has been raised to hypnoanalysis (Lindner's example was finished in 46 hourly sessions). But hypnoanalysis also has respectable support: it has been used by the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kan., by famed Psychiatrist Milton H. Erickson, of Michigan's Eloise Hospital...
...comedy, I Love a Soldier suffers from a confusion of values, which is likely to outrage rather than amuse most moviegoers. Barry Fitzgerald contributes a brief but telling bit as a richly impertinent, elfish little cable-car gripman (conductor). But despite his efforts, this idyll of young love resembles not so much a spring freshet as a saucer of milk left to sour by an ungrateful...
...their efforts to organize a militia, the whites and blacks of Carwell barricaded themselves inside the big plantation house. Marcus, Gideon's youngest son, was shot while trying to get help. Jeff was murdered after answering an appeal under truce to help some wounded Klansmen. In a brief three-day siege, the plantation house and all its contents were destroyed...