Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although he is not a TIME subscriber, Uncle Charlie follows a pattern of reading common to many TIME families. He awaits his turn. The family subscriber is a niece, Mrs. Earl Smith, who lives nearby. She began reading TIME at the local library, liked it, and became a subscriber. A tall, handsome, grey-haired woman, whose husband is deputy sheriff, Mrs. Smith told Wylie that she turns to Science and Medicine first -partly because her son, who is away at school, is particularly interested in those subjects. Then she reads National Affairs, and so on through each issue...
...Sigmund Freud studied the Oedipus myth and came to a shocking conclusion: Oedipus, like most sons, was in love with his mother, and, as many a son would like to do, killed his father to get her. The Oedipus complex, said Freud, is an all-too-common ailment of mankind-"the essential part in the content of neuroses...
Plumbing & Clams. But the time is coming, the AEC warned, when radioactive substances will be common outside such guarded centers. More & more laboratories are using radioisotopes (see above), and the atomic power plants of the future will necessarily contain vast quantities of radioactive material. It will be the duty of health authorities to see that none of the stuff damages the public...
...company cut no extra share of the dividend pie. Armco Steel, with a 28% increase in its profit to $32 million, boosted its quarterly dividend from 50? to 62½?. Wheeling Steel kept to its regular rate ($1 a quarter), though its earnings had jumped to $23.24 per common share (v. $18.66 last year), nearly half the current market price of its stock. Even tiny Barium Steel, which had never paid a dividend, declared one of 10% in stock...
...modern poetry has any common denominator, it is probably this sense of full but precarious moments-a conviction that beauties are transient, leaseholds short, attitudes fated, and all the foundations mined. Against this conviction Mrs. Daryush, like many another contemporary, balances faith in the precarious art of poetry. Her lyrics are those of a gentlewoman (she lives a retired Oxfordshire country life with her husband, a onetime official of the Persian foreign office), but, like her father's, her poems have responded to public occasions. This was written on the war in Ethiopia...