Word: label
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nixon had claimed G.O.P. credit for the Supreme Court's desegregation decision (see above), Adlai shifted his fire to the Democrats' favorite target. Nixon, he said acidly, "is an all-purpose politician who can proclaim an old Democratic program as good when it wears a new Republican label, and denounce it as socialism at the same time.'' In Salt Lake City he said: "Warren is no more a Republican Chief Justice than the seven members who were appointed under previous Administrations are Democratic Justices. These nine men jointly performed their duty according to their consciences...
...Children's mental illnesses vary widely and cannot be pigeonholed into neat categories. To avoid sticking themselves with the pin on a diagnostic label, many psychiatrists prefer to lump all juvenile mental patients under the cliche heading "emotionally disturbed...
...Pollock-De Kooning breakthrough soon found a following, and a label: abstract expressionism. Like most labels, this one has proved inadequate. It is used loosely to suggest merely the expression of strong feeling without any reference to objective reality. Young idealists in search of an ideal, and middle-aged casuists in search of a cause, alike sprang to the defense of abstract expressionism almost before it began to be attacked. And it was attacked, inevitably, for to believers in the classical concepts of beauty and truth to nature, it was an insult. This gave the advance guard a stimulating sense...
...became vivid, and when the hi-fi crowd learned that the organ could play both lower and higher than any other instrument, it became their all-out favorite. The boom began with sub-middlebrow theater-organ concoctions, e.g., a series of LPs by Organist Reginald Foort, on the Cook label, continued with a series by George Wright, put out by newly formed High Fidelity Recordings, Inc. On the serious side there are Columbia's fast-selling church-organ recordings with E. Power Biggs, and Decca has completed a major release of Bach by German Organist Helmut Walcha...
...among the eight men were two mechanics, a cleaner, a hairdresser, a steel inspector and three unemployed. Their illnesses range from the commonest neuroses to severe psychoses. The decision as to whether a patient can be admitted and effectively treated is made not on the basis of a diagnostic label, but on whether he or she is too disturbed, and thus likely to disturb others. Though the sexes are mixed deliberately-Dr. Cameron wants the inside of the hospital to resemble the outside world as far as possible-sex causes no trouble. Only exception in the memory of the present...