Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Responding to complaints about high prices and sales of spoiled food, the Saturday lawyers persuaded the owner of a ghetto supermarket to make improvements and to meet regularly with a committee of his customers. Society Director Michael Padnos also arranged to have Grady Hospital, which treats many of the city's poor, review the financial status of certain patients-and perhaps reduce their hospital bills-before bringing lawsuits to collect the money...
Starting to Scare. Director Padnos, 33, a University of Chicago Law School graduate, is the man most responsible for turning the Atlanta Legal Aid Society into an effective and exciting organization. "We're just scratching the surface," says Padnos, who wants to double the size of his volunteer staff to 100 lawyers this year. "There are still plenty of people being victimized for every one we help." But the weekend lawyers are at least beginning to fight back against those who once took advantage of the poor without risk of either exposure or interference...
Most large-circulation national magazines go along with Winship. Playboy takes the attitude that obscene words are not to be used for what Editorial Director A. C. Spectorsky calls "shock value or the nervous laughter they might produce, but if the editorial context calls for them, we use them." Atlantic and Harper's both feel that their audience is ready for rough language. "With our literary and sociological claims," says Atlantic Editor Robert Manning, "I see no reason why we should not make judicious use of those words if they make the difference in portraying an extreme feeling." Harper...
...Style. Even Freud's daughter Anna, 73, the founder and director of the Hampstead Child Therapy Clinic in London and one of his school's most progressive heirs, sadly acknowledges that psychoanalysis seems to be going out of style. "Young people now are not interested in man's struggle against himself, but in man's struggle against society," she said last year in Manhattan. "They see that what psychoanalysis may lead to is adaptation to society. That's the last thing they have in mind...
...include a film report from Albania and an uneven essay on the "vulgarity" of Texas. In a preview of the sort of sharp commentary he delivered last week, he described Texas as "a land without style, a confused and chaotic society" obsessed with guns. Now he is also managing director of three suburban London weeklies acquired by his father...