Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quoted Latin and Greek and had once played championship chess. At night, his busy wife would read aloud to him (he was nearly blind); but his greatest delights were the family singing about the piano, or talking at the table. His big dictionary was always open; no conversation could go on for long without some Clapp having to look up something...
Other presidents have found that the nation's alumnae could better use a whole re-education in the matter. To Lynn White of Mills, the big obstacle was that women outlive their husbands. Then they give away their money to their husbands' alma maters. "I go around the country advising women to predecease their husbands," says Mills's president. "We'd do better...
...Yourself Go. For an "inhibited" patient, Salter prescribes "excitatory" exercises. First & foremost is "feeling-talk." The sentence, "Today is Friday" is dry, inhibited "fact-talk." Salter would rather hear his patient getting some emotional outlet by saying, "Thank heavens, today is Friday and the weekend is here." There is also "facial talk": if a cat purrs when it is happy and a dog howls when its paw is stepped on, so should a man-or at any rate, scowl. From this it is.a mere step to another Salter prescription: "Contradict and attack. When you differ with someone, do not simulate...
...Hope. Nelson Rockefeller, who with his brothers has launched his own private Point Four program in South America (TIME, Jan. 31), testified that he was also wholeheartedly in favor of Point Four. It was the promise of renewed "faith and hope that free peoples can work together . . . We cannot go on indefinitely subsidizing our exports by giving away dollars...
...made strikes would not necessarily turn them into profits; they still had the problem of operating the well and marketing the oil. As one California oilman put it: "I can give you an oil well which is actually producing a good amount of oil, and bet you'll go broke if you don't know what you're doing. The stars . . . don't know enough about the business...