Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fuss over a game of football? Ever since the big series started in 1875, men have tried to discover the special charm of the late November classic. Bright-eyed moralists, for instance, have gone into a happy glow at the sight of real clean, healthy (American) sportsmanship. But 57,000 fans haven't paid $4.80 and upwards each to see a demonstration of the Golden Rule...
What Is Psychiatry? What exactly, is this science that all the fuss is about? In one of his three books* published this year (You and Psychiatry, Scribner, $2.50, written in collaboration with Munro Leaf, author of Ferdinand the Bull), Dr. Will has given a textbook definition: "Psychiatry is that branch of clinical medicine that concerns itself with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of personality disorders." Instead of "personality dis orders," some authorities chop off four syllables and call it "mental illness." Despite the claims of some of its enthusiasts, psychiatry does not pretend to be a philosophy, nor take...
Catastrophic Effect. Another point agreed on without much fuss was that most modern art, like most art of any period, is second-rate or worse. "We have lived," said British Critic Raymond Mortimer, "[in an art age] dominated by a few men of extraordinary imaginative power, like Matisse, Picasso and Braque. Greatly as I admire them, I think their effect on their contemporaries and juniors has been catastrophic. To distort before you can represent is like trying to dance before you can walk." But, argued Mortimer, "modern painting is no more difficult to understand than modern poetry, modern music...
Registration for the peacetime draft-which many an American had once thought would bring widespread protests -ended last week. Except for some noisy picketing, it had stirred up no fuss at all. But it had helped bolster the Army before even a single man was inducted. It had upped recruiting to the highest point since the wartime draft ended...
Ayer thinks that "Oxonian's" fuss about fascism is "extremely stupid." All he wants to do, he says, is to distinguish between sentiment and fact; the fascists were forever confusing the two. That sounded all right, in a way-but most Britons didn't like the sound...