Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...class plunged promptly, if not deeply, into Freudian theory. Psychiatrist Herbert Modlin ticked off basic personality types, and told how to recognize some of the tricks of the unconscious in employees' behavior. Examples: a compulsive, conservative accountant may be reacting against childhood impulses to be dirty and rebellious; an ambitious man may have developed from a passive child, a philanthropist from the bullyboy who tied tin cans to cats' tails; an employee oversuspicious of everybody else's motives may act that way because his own unconscious motives are basically unworthy. A passive and compliant type who will...
Decent Godless People. The world wore a smiling mask in his childhood: "good parents, good food, a garden to play in." Born in Belfast in 1898, Lewis was reared in the Church of Ireland, but his parents' religion was sheer rote, the kind T. S. Eliot was to satirize in the line: "Here were a decent godless people...
Death tore the mask off a happy childhood and an easy faith, when his mother died of cancer. "To this day I do not know what they mean when they call dead bodies beautiful. The ugliest man alive is an angel of beauty compared with the loveliest of the dead...
...rather literary world (Adlai's maternal grandfather was publisher of the Bloomington Pantograph). Young Adlai played charades-once he enacted "a sunbeam on a rug"-and listened to his father's serial stories about two characters called Whangdoodle and Whiffenpoof. The saddest moment of Stevenson's childhood-the tragic death of a young girl when a gun Adlai was carrying went off accidentally-is told by Author Ives with great kindness and candor. For the rest, tragedy is absent...
...Tenley Albright, world's champion figure skater and one of the U.S.'s few sure bets for a first place, tripped over a hole in the ice and gashed her leg. But the pretty blonde premedical student, who took up skating to offset the effects of childhood polio, insisted she would be ready for competition. Her physician father, who flew in from the U.S., agreed. Said Tenley: "I'll skate even if the leg is broken...