Word: highly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ulcers and high blood pressure are popularly supposed to be the chief occupational diseases of U.S. business executives. Last week, at a meeting of Chicago's Industrial Relations Association, Dr. David Slight, Illinois state psychiatrist and onetime University of Chicago professor, told why. A generation or two ago, said he, the successful executive, like as not, was a roaring, highhanded type who grabbed what he wanted and didn't worry about shoving other people around in the process. But the 1949 executive, said Dr. Slight, feels bound by the new labor-management gospel to watch his step...
...group decisions "in order to be one of the boys." Said Dr. Slight: "Thus the aggressive vitality drive that makes the executive ambitious is thwarted, and it must go somewhere, so it goes inside, producing diarrhea, headaches, blurring of vision ringing in the ears," and ultimately ulcers,* high blood pressure, or both...
...usual in a cross-country chase, the movie spots its young folks in a grubby motel, a Greyhound bus and a cabaret, but They Live by Night handles them with realistic kid gloves. Cathy sometimes combs a too-pretty hairdo, but mostly the pair act like nice, believable high-school kids...
Adam's Rib is acted as though the players found it funny, but actually, like many "sophisticated" movie comedies, it is more absurd than comical. Its chief asset: a high-toned song called Farewell, Amanda, with dismal lyrics which Cole Porter must have written while waiting...
Penalty. In Hollis, Okla., Nan Claiborne, candidate for high-school football queen, tried the game herself, lost a front tooth and the title...