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...professor of psychiatry at the medical school of the University of Pennsylvania, expert on behavior disorders of children, author, whose 1946 study Their Mothers' Sons examined the U.S.'s "mom-archie" society, attributed much mental disease to "momism"; of lung cancer; in Philadelphia. In Strecker's lexicon, a "Mom" was not a mother. "Mom is a maternal parent who fails to prepare her offspring emotionally for living a productive adult life on an adult social plane. A Mom does not untie the emotional apron string," and the result is an immature son or daughter. What is maturity...
Kirk next refuted the author's claim that aspirations to Arab unity come from a lexicon of liberal foundations. By quoting speeches made by Nasser on several occasions during the past five years, he showed that the dictator's desire that Egypt spread "from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf" is but the traditional Egyptian attempt to expand, now under the guise of Arab unity...
...came to the rescue. And when Egypt then rejected the Eisenhower Doctrine, the U.S. instituted "a vicious policy of invasion from within" the Arab world, sought "to isolate Egypt," and the battle became clear and open. And for those Arab leaders and "deviators" (a word drawn from the Marxist lexicon) who had lined up with the U.S., there will never be any place "in any Arab solidarity...
UNION leaders still talk to their members in depression-born slogans that sound as incongruous in our full-employment economy as a campaign to make "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" the national anthem. In the union lexicon, the term "Big Business" remains shorthand for everything that is evil. Yet the most substantial victories won by unions at the bargaining table have come from the giants of industry. It was the United States Steel Corp. that gave unionism a bloodless foothold in the mass production industries 20 years ago. It was Ford and General Motors that capitulated to the "guaranteed...
...lexicon of track and field, weight men are called "whales," and in this Olympic year, Parry O'Brien is the great white whale of the U.S. team-a Moby Dick whom the Russians and the rest of the athletic world would rejoice to master. In competitive terms, he is the epitome of the spirit of single-minded pursuit of perfection idealized in the Olympic creed, a loner who has consecrated his life to the task of tossing a 16-lb. ball of steel farther than anyone-including Parry O'Brien -has tossed it before. He searches for tricks...