Word: distressful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though such conditions date back to the 18th century, few historians, Ashton maintains, have bothered to make the comparison. "It was so much easier to pick out the more sensational evidences of distress and work them into a dramatic story of exploitation . . . Conditions in the mills and the factory town were so bad, it seemed, that there must have been deterioration; and, since the supposed deterioration had taken place at a time when machinery had increased, the machines, and those who owned them, must have been responsible...
Russian-born Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, professor of sociology at Harvard since 1930, has long viewed with distress the moral laxity of the U.S., his adopted country. He is especially concerned with the national preoccupation with sex, as evidenced by the success of Mickey Spillane's detective stories ("calculated to enthrall the most brutal sex sadist") and of Dr. Alfred Kinsey's reports on sexual behavior. As a nation, Sorokin warned this week, the U.S. is in danger of going sex-crazy...
...Summer House (by Jane Bowles) takes place on a dreamlike section of the Southern California coast, and contrasts the happy-animal life of a gaggle of Mexicans with the mental distress of half a dozen Americans in just about every stage of neurotic obsession. Widowed Judith Anderson, the undisputed queen of this domain, is superbly in command from the very start. Like a Freudian Madame Defarge, she knits in purposeful accompaniment to the sound of her own voice falling like a cleaver on her tremble-chinned daughter (Elizabeth Ross), who peeps in terror from a vine-enclosed summerhouse across...
...veteran pilot, radioed for an ambulance and landed the DC-6 at Phoenix. Minutes later, Frank Nixon was receiving blood transfusions at St. Joseph's Hospital. The patient's son, Vice President Richard M. Nixon, was promptly notified, although his mother Hannah Nixon hated "to distress him right now when he has so much on his mind...
...Sylvia Berke, who was employed at Fort Monmouth in 1943. denied that she was a member of the Communist Party then. With her lawyer beside her, a study in distress, Mrs. Berke said that she was not a Communist last Sept. 15, but refused to say if she had been one Sept. 13. McCarthy told her that if she is fired from her position as a school clerk in The Bronx, she "might apply for a job over at Harvard-there seems to be a privileged sanctuary over there for Fifth Amendment cases...