Word: et
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read with interest your June 8 article, "Memories Before Birth?" With psychiatry entering into all phases of human life, psychological gobbledygook has finally reached the end of the line. Et tu, fetus...
Your observation that the damage done to U.S.-British relations during the utterances by Churchill, Attlee, et al. was partly caused by the failure of Americans "to take seriously years of anti-American propaganda by British journalists and intellectuals" is perfectly justified...
...through this under Hitler." The order came from the State Department, just before Senator Joe McCarthy's two young investigators, Cohn and Schine, took off for a quick look at U.S. library shelves all over the Continent. Removed were works by Reds, fellow travelers, controversial figures, "et cetera." Some of the blacklisted authors are Communists like Howard Fast, who writes propaganda novels; others are Communists whose works are not party propaganda, e.g., Dashiell Hammett's The Thin Man. Some were by notably non-Communist authors whose works or opinions had apparently annoyed somebody (in a similar shelf cleanup...
...edge of their chairs at color movies of Chicago's little Siamese twins, which included close-ups of their brains as Neurosurgeon Oscar Sugar sorted out the mixed-up blood vessels, and details of the long and complicated series of skin grafts (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). Also for the professional audience only was a sequence of the surviving twin, Rodney Brodie, sitting happily alone in a playchair, though the top of his head bulged under the pressure of the brain against its light covering of skin and fuzzy hair...
...Speeding Truck. The bitter feud between Columnists Lyons and Winchell flared up when Lyons resigned as vice president of Winchell's pet project, the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952 et seq.). Recently Lyons lighted a firecracker under Winchell by writing a letter to New York City's Police Commissioner George P. Monaghan. The letter suggested that Monaghan revoke Winchell's pistol-toting permit, unless Winchell could pass a "psychiatric" test...