Word: luridness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...praise or blame is likely to go to one man: a slight, wiry, retired rear admiral of the Navy named Emory Scott Land. For 61-year-old Jerry Land is chairman of the Maritime Commission as well as co-holder of its tennis championship, casual dispenser of its most lurid and effective seagoing profanity. Except for Joseph Patrick Kennedy, who chairmaned the Commission for its first ten months and got it off to a handsome start, he has been its only boss...
...most of the books with non-interventionist implications were such as would discredit our point of view (The Wave of the Future). Though manifestly intended to provide Harvard students with a factual and interpretive basis for understanding the issues of today, the "war library" has eventually emerged with the lurid confessional of Jan Valtin prominent among its volumes. I consider this an insult to the intelligence of undergraduates...
Comic Strips. Many grownups have an idea that comic strips of the lurid adventure type are bad for children (TIME, Feb. 24). Dr. Lauretta Bender of New York, who has three children of her own, and Dr. Reginald Spencer Lourie declared that, on the contrary, these wild yarns are often good for unhappy children-"an inexpensive form of therapy." Dr. Bender told of a little girl whose father was a bootlegger, gambler and eventual suicide, whose mother was a paranoid cancer sufferer. Obsessed by the need of escape, the girl identified herself with one of the Hawk...
...gobbles up about 10,000,000 comic books a month-an overseasoned, indigestible, nerve-shattering, eye-ruining diet of non-comic murder, torture, kidnappings, sex-baiting. Traceable to these hyperthyroid thrillers are many a midnight scream in the nursery, many a juvenile nervous tantrum. Some parents ban the lurid comic books; the more thoughtful try to substitute "good" books. Meanwhile the comic books go marching on-with a slight drop due to the loss of the export market...
...case came up in a New Jersey Circuit Court. It was because of Dr. Klein's treatments, Mrs. Stemmer claimed, that little Jacob is a pinheaded idiot who, at the age of 5½, weighs 22 lb., cannot even sit up. At the lurid trial, two medical experts and a psychologist testified that the X-ray treatments were responsible for the child's idiocy; nine other doctors claimed they were...