Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Something Positive. The Freeman's editors plan to break away from the rigidly anti-Communist diet of Plain Talk, "go on to something more positive." Says Chamberlain: "The fight [against Communists] has been won domestically . . . You don't have to keep telling people that Communists have techniques of getting into organizations and are pretty good at spying . . . We want to revive the John Stuart Mill concept of liberalism. We feel we're rescuing an old word from misuse." Among those who did their bit to help rescue the old liberalism in the first issue were George Sokolsky...
...farm, which he shares with the Morrison family: Harvard Lecturer (and poet) Theodore Morrison* and his wife Kathleen. Both at Cambridge and Ripton, "K," serves as a sort of combined secretary, manager and friend, handles Frost's correspondence, types his poems, fends off unwanted callers, fusses over his diet and clothes, tries to see that he gets to bed at a reasonable hour...
...Austerity Diet. But when Mrs. Roosevelt arrived in Los Angeles one morning last week, she seemed no more disturbed than a veteran kindergarten teacher who has heard a little minor scuffling in the back of the room. She greeted both Jimmy and Helen with cries of matriarchal affection and rode off to Jimmy's Beverly Hills mansion with them as tranquilly as if she were taking both to be fitted with teeth braces and sensible shoes...
...them thirsting to embroil her in argument about local politics. She solved it by discussing the United Nations-so firmly, so energetically and with so much of the air of a Hokinsonian clubwoman doing flower arrangements that the press fidgeted, breathed heavily and resigned itself to an austerity diet of Larger Issues...
...slow; mesomorphs, vigorous and aggressive; ectomorphs, inhibited and cautious. Further, he has found his types particularly susceptible to certain diseases, e.g., mesomorphs to acute appendicitis. Usually, says Sheldon, a person's physique can help indicate what sort of reaction he will have under stress, what sort of diet he needs, what sort of work he will excel...