Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many of them are not psychologists. They rely on supposedly cheatproof tests, asking their subjects to complete sly sentences ("My greatest fear . . ." "What pains me . . ."), flashing Rorschach inkblots, or as in the sample above, asking the testee to draw figures. Author Gross includes a key for scoring figures. A button nose on a drawing is an indication that the artist is immature; limply hanging arms show a Hamlet-like personality (very bad); buttons drawn on clothes reveal inadequacy and dependency; if the female figure is clothed or flat-chested, the artist is sexually disturbed (but it is normal...
...group was confronted by an earnest patriot who was trying to pin small American flags to the blouses and lapels of everyone in the jammed crowd. One Russian boy let himself get pinned. Others laughed at him. With a grin, he turned the lapel over, exposing a metal button with a picture of Nasser...
...there has been speculation lately whether in event of an imminent attack on this country you would be willing to press the button. In that connection, sir, could you tell us where you keep the button...
...These Republican suggestions that Caroline has been playing with the button are not in the national interest ... I am hopeful that we can soon make a determination about a convenient place to keep the button, because it is not a simple matter for Mr. Salinger to have to carry it over here from the White House every time we have a press conference...
...represent the answer of the average working-class Englishman: "Lord knows I wish she wouldn't. But if the poor dear is all that set on ruining her life, I don't see how I can stop her. As I see it, we shall all have to button up and take the bitter with the better." The answer, though skillfully expounded by Actor Mills, is less than illuminating, and the film, as a discussion of the race problem in Britain, is less than memorable. But it is sincere and careful, and it usefully reminds a many-colored humanity...