Word: interestedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Senate is not future-minded, Mr. White emphasizes. It values caution and tradition. It scorns conformity. It is unimpressed with the success of which a man like Charles E. Wilson is so proud. "Any damn fool," White quotes a Senator's recent comment "can make a million dollars." The...
The scouts, too, were interested not in the score-21-7 for the South-but in the talent arrayed before them. Some of the best college seniors were absent, or already drafted for the pros, or both. Alabama's stubborn refusal to let a Negro play with white men...
An unconscious motive for buying expensive equipment is often a desire for revenge, said Dr. Bowes. "One very compulsive patient, who found the sexual side of matrimony completely nauseating," he recalled, "was financially ruining his fairly wealthy wife by his extravagant purchases . . . while she obtained instinctual gratification elsewhere. As he...
The book is written with a kind of rich man's folksiness, the author being supremely sure that every reader will be interested in his views on why it is good to have money, in the family album snapshots of his children and his recollections of the great. At...
Cella is interested in a lower voting age because he feels "people 18-21 are as capable and intelligent as many of those that are older. They seem to take political questions quite seriously. If they had the chance to vote, they would study the political situation carefully, as many...