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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guilty Cokes. One MR outfit, Social Research Inc. of Chicago, set out to discover what was wrong with tobacco advertising by learning why people smoke. It did not need to go so deep into unconscious symbolism as the Freudians, who see the cigarette as a nipple substitute. Its psychologists found...
It is, therefore, not a little surprising to discover in Sean O'Faolain a good humored Irishman. He sees the breathing corpses which Joyce portrayed in Dubliners, the scarecrows and fairies with whom Yeats identified, the fools and buffoons whom Shaw cauterized. But this vision of the lover does not...
The noisy blasts against Postmaster General Summerfield may have turned the House Appropriations Subcommittee "purple," as you say [April 15], but until the hue of Congress becomes more purposeful than regal, the statistical peashooters will continue to confound the postal problems. Let Congress discover the basic causes of the ever...
Stephen Wailes '59 and Gabrielle Ladd (Wellesley '57) have two poems about nature. Both are suggestive; neither harsh. But neither has much more to say than that the author is depressed. Both have a tendency to discover themselves in the natural order. This is sort of reverse Romanticism which Tennyson...
In two of their October, 1955 issues the New York Times featured a two-installment report on a survey of undergraduate campuses (mostly in the East) which claimed to discover a "widespread and deep interest in religion" and a "searching for answers" among these students. This survey was based on...