Word: homeyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Texas 17 newspaper publishers, polled (at the Texas Daily Newspaper Association meeting in Dallas) on whether Ike could carry Texas again, voted nine no, eight yes. Those who felt that Texas still likes Ike in spite of the gas bill veto advanced a homey piece of logic to back their argument: Texas still has more gas consumers than gas producers...
...Capitol recently by deep-voiced Tennessee Ernie Ford, and leaped to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made. It has a driving beat, like the cars clanking to and from the underground yard, and its words carry a kind of homey cynicism: You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...
...conquering flame. The story does nothing so genteel as unfold. It catapults and ricochets: characters bounce out of trapdoors, squeeze into closets, hide under tables, eavesdrop behind screens; boys dress up as girls and cab drivers loop with drink, identities are mistaken and purses mislaid. There is all the homey, cheerful pandemonium of a horse-and-buggy age whose inhabitants may have been inhibited but whose playwriting decidedly...
...butcher's pistol, had him gelded instead. "The operation," he says proudly, "was a complete success. Fabliau is now so gentle he's a household pet. For company we've let him have a cow as a stable mate. I think the cow has a homey, comforting influence that makes him happy." Last week, Fabliau trotted off to Chantilly to begin training. "Ah, my little eunuch," said M. Auteroche, "how you have suffered. But you will be a winner...
...Protestants and Catholics are getting neurotic about each other, says Protestant The Christian Century in an editorial for Reformation Sunday (Oct. 30). U.S. Psychoanalyst Karen Homey once cited a danger signal for personal neurosis: response that is out of proportion to the stimulus that set it off. And this, says the Century, is exactly the way Protestantism is becoming when confronted by Roman Catholicism...