Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There is a reasonable way out, declared Dr. Binger, but he was not sure that enough of the world's governments are interested in listening to reason (meaning the scientists). Politicians, he said, would not think of trying to wage modern warfare without the help of the scientists. These same scientists, he said, might be able to prevent war if they were only called in before the war began...
...With the help of two sons and a daughter, all of whom work for him, Publisher Hoiles runs his chain from Santa Ana. He shouts his letters and columns to a long-suffering secretary, passes out pamphlets on Christ and taxes to all comers, harangues editors, reporters and the janitor. But he confines his independent opinions to his signed column. Says he: "The news columns don't belong to us. We're just like stenographers...
Last November, with help from the therapists and a Detroit Conservatory professor, Ernest started something bigger. Last week at the Michigan State fair grounds he heard the Detroit Symphony Orchestra play excerpts from his first symphony, to an audience of 10,000. The music was pretty murky in spots, and full of borrowings from Tchaikovsky. Said Conductor Valter Poole, "It interested me as psychiatry, not as music." But the audience gave Ernest an ovation. Said he in a bashful curtain speech: "Ladies and gentlemen, I enjoyed the playing of the symphony . . . Have confidence in mental hospitals-it did me good...
...commercials is the disembodied hands whose busy work is described by disembodied voices. These ghostly hands are likely to snap. Ronson lighters on & off, or to whip up a foamy lather of Ivory Snow. Some advertisers just skip the hands and let the product operate mysteriously without visible human help...
...life of work, Mother Agatha gives herself little credit. But she has her satisfaction. She can't help being pleased when her alumni come back ("they seem to love to bring their children to see me"). It is not out of vanity, she insists, that she carefully conceals her age. Says she: "If I told it, they might try to retire...