Word: musts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychological front, somebody even wanted to shoot Santa Claus. St. Nick, said Psychiatrist Ludolf N. Bollmeier, of Little Rock, Ark., was a potential source of juvenile delinquency; little white lies about Santa might lead to "serious trouble later on." His advice to old-fashioned parents: "If you must tell children about Santa Claus, tell them it's just make-believe and not a reality...
Socialistic Plumpness. Because they had none of the sickly romanticism fashionable in his day, Courbet's paintings were laughed at. One critic complained that Courbet must be a socialist: his nudes were so plumply inelegant. Another of Courbet's critics may have been the first, but by no means the last, man to look at a picture and remark that his kids could do it better...
...front of inmates as if they weren't there (as some adults speak in front of children); the strange snobbery of the sick who look down on their sicker fellows; the large-looming small idiocies of institutional bureaucracy, such as the clean carpet in one ward which must not be stepped on (and the wonderful old woman who jumps on it and dances a defiant Charleston...
...will naturally expect no declaration of policy [about Edinburgh University] from me at this stage. But I firmly believe that a university must turn out men & women who are fit to live, as well as fit to earn a living . . . After all, we sleep for one third of our time, we work another third-but there is still a third left. Education should prepare one for the whole of one's waking life...
...cancer fighters gained another inch or so in their Sisyphean progress? Much work remained to be done before anyone could be sure. Said Warburg, after discussing the action of the anti-enzyme: "It must now be found out by experiment whether such an anti-enzyme will inhibit the growth of tumors in the human body...