Word: certainly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Podola's were a case of schizophrenia, said Edwards, he would have been 100% indifferent to everything and everybody. But the "Selective" fashion in which Podola could recall certain things from the past tended to confirm that he suffered only from hysterical amnesia. Podola, Edwards argued, was in the grip of what psychiatrists call la belle indifference-a "couldn't-care-less attitude about some things but not all things." As an example, Edwards pointed to the gesture-"absolutely incredible in a man with emotional awareness"-with which Podola had alluded to the possibility of hanging...
When the National Association of Broadcasters wrote its Television Code in 1952, the association decided that certain products should not rate air time at all, e.g., hemorrhoid remedies. This spring, when the Westinghouse Broadcasting Company's President Donald McGannon took charge of the N.A.B. code review board, offenders were told to stop talking about hemorrhoids and other such "intimately personal" problems or forfeit the code seal of approval, but 20 stations decided that they could get along without it. Further, McGannon's review board went on to criticize commercials for toilet paper, deodorants, laxatives, etc. In a confidential...
...they rise to the bait, Actor Gielgud and Actress Leighton also rise to the top of their bents. At sparring they are perfectly matched, at witty detail brilliantly mated. If added tribute goes to Actress Leighton, it is for a certain marvelously sustained manner: she is all hoity-toity airiness and verve. Though the rest of the production, barring George Rose's lively Dogberry, is much of a piece with the rest of the play, both are well worth putting up with for the sake of the stars...
...unsophisticated outsider could tell you--who had not become mesemrized by the tripartite division of the Harvard course catalogue--the conclusions you reach on certain subjects in "Hum" are basic to your whole outlook even in "Soc Sci." Dropping God from one's metaphysical inventory does not leave everything else neatly in place; enormous reverberations are set up which it would be perilous to ignore...
...natural phenomena" is the reason given more than any other, and of the three factors vying for second place, two are equally epistemic, "philosophical considerations, such as logical refutations of theoretical proofs of the existence of God" and "the irreconcilability of a literal interpretation of the Bible with certain established scientific truths, such as the Copernican or Darwinian theories...