Word: homeyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Perchance Mr. [Beverley] Baxter might benefit from a bicycle trip through the good, solid American countryside. There he might find some who would be in a homey, talkative mood, thus imparting to him yet another side of U.S. life ... If it's conversation he wants, any housewife over here could bring him down to earth in nothing flat. He'd find that a good portion of us are college graduates, as are our husbands. We're usually a family of four with the usual pets. We do our own housework, worry about mortgage payments, food budgets...
Died. Dr. Karen Homey, 67, German-born psychoanalyst-author (The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, Our Inner Conflicts), part founder (in 1941) and dean of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis; in Manhattan. A specialist on neuroses and how they grow ("A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization"), she disputed Freud's belief that thwarted basic drives are the cause of all mental ills, maintained that pinched emotions were more often due to contradictory values in society. She predicted that in the U.S. the conflicting goals of success-through-competition and Christian unselfishness would cause a plague...
...motion picture with a minimum of motion and a maximum of sugary sentiment. The result is a fourposter that often creaks and sags. England's suave Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer, his real-life wife, play their parts smoothly, though they sometimes seem over-sophisticated for the homey couple they are supposed to be. The picture owes nothing to the stage original for its outstanding feature: a gaily animated cartoon that bridges sequences, depicting the changing world outside the bedroom...
...advance all these theories because both Adlai Stevenson and Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois look very suspiciously like rush jobs. (Busch's appeared just before the Democratic Convention and Martin's soon after). Basically, they are overblown news stories, combining amateurish attempts at character analysis with homey anecdotes about the Governor frolicking with his kids on the front lawn. Neither book is well written because, I suppose, quotations, homily, and hum-drum are incompatible with polished prose. At best, they are slick...
...says Muriel Agnelli, a matronly, grey-haired lady in her late 40s, "is lots of common sense, a little less cynicism and a little more faith. Where children are concerned, we need a little more discipline and a little less indulgence." Mrs. Agnelli had better be right. On that homey recipe she has become a No. 1 newspaper counselor, and mother confessor to millions of U.S. newspaper readers. Last week Bell Syndicate let out a well-kept secret: Mrs. Agnelli is the new "Dorothy Dix." She is also the wife of the syndicate's general manager, Joseph Agnelli...