Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...overall format goes, the Third New International smacks somewhat of vulgarity. The bold new Times Roman type face is both smaller and less elegant than the old font; the color illustrations are bright and ugly, and the charming obscurities once collected at the bottom of each page have either been eliminated or squeezed into the general text. Newness cries out raucously everywhere from this ill-conceived, middlebrow foofaraw. Look on these words, ye mighty, and despair...
...Universal) is a routine, competent British fang opera filmed, as many of the new scare shows are, in a color process that seems peculiarly sensitive to red. The picture contains an inspired scene. As a priest holds a pretty little baby (destined to be a werewolf) over a baptismal font, a fiendish face appears suddenly in the depths of the font and the holy water bubbles to a rolling boil. The scriptwriters have also provided an unwittingly hilarious line. After slaughtering five sheep and draining them of blood, the werewolf, now a fat little boy, is called to lunch...
Some psychiatrists nonetheless believe that the impersonality of modern mass production at least contributes to the problem of mental health. Others, like Du Font's psychiatric chief, Dr. Gerald Gordon, feel that the job actually provides a needed center of reality. Says Dr. Gordon: "Industry is one of the few realistic situations in our present culture, because its success depends on the hard, cold profit-loss statistics. What is really good, sound business is also good mental health...
...better to keep a man or woman on the job during treatment. Says Dr. Raymond J. Murray, medical director of Sperry Gyroscope Co.: "It is surprising how disturbed a person can be and stay on the job." A tougher on-the-firing-line approach is the basis of Du Font's program. Psychiatrist Gordon does not believe in coddling, thinks that a disturbed worker can be taught to face reality by being required to do his work the same as other workers. Dr. Gordon's theory is that expecting him to do as well as others inspires...
Other psychiatrists do not agree with Du Font's hard-headed approach, insist on traditional psychiatric methods that take longer and treat a worker's psyche more carefully. In fact, the whole young field of industrial psychiatry is as rife with conflict as are the minds of its patients. One big problem, points out IBM Medical Director Dr. John Duffy, is that "there is no statistical yardstick" to measure the results of mental health programs, "since we aren't buying merchandise." Some businessmen still cling to the old idea that the worker's personal problems...