Word: neat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more psychiatrists learn about mental illnesses, the less willing they become to hang neat diagnostic labels on them. This is especially true of children's mental illnesses, which are so baffling that they defy classification by the most determined nosologist. Yet the term "childhood schizophrenia" has stuck. There has been an enormous increase in this diagnosis, now "fashionable and much abused," says Dr. Hilde L. Mosse in the American Journal of Psychiatry, and it has done great harm to a lot of children...
...self-dubbed "spontaneous creations" are flashy signatures squeezed in a frenzy straight from the paint tubes onto one-tone backgrounds. ¶ Edouard Pignon, who went from coal mining and a Citroen assembly line to painting Picasso-flavored landscapes, now adds a lyrical personal tempo to his semi-abstractions. A neat, natural talent whose 1957 oils convey the Mediterranean joy, light and life of a little resort near Marseilles, Pignon is currently on view both in Paris' Galerie de France and Manhattan's Perls Galleries...
...Jennie, "fresh and sparkling as a rosebud," her "lovely petals protected by a thorn." With a slight tightening of the lips (and Kissel's shotgun), she can down eight brace of prairie plover in seven shots (five doubles and two triples). Has a "neat, graceful competence" in scalping Indians. Fond of husbands, but is apt to have them shot out from under...
...avoid street incidents, "700" boys arrive and leave slightly before children in nearby schools, are escorted to subways by a teacher, who pays for their rides out of public funds. Both schools require neat dress; the Brooklyn unit even insists on ties. In the classroom, the boys usually keep up a cocky, running banter with their teacher. But they can talk with the weariness of old age about their problems. "I'm a troublemaker," said one eighth grader. "I started everything that ever happened...
...Justin Brooks Atkinson has made few acquaintances in the theater for fear of compromising his integrity. (He met Katharine Cornell and Thornton Wilder for the first time at his party.) A demanding but undogmatic critic, Massachusetts-born, Harvard-educated ('17) Atkinson writes his views in pencil in a neat hand on a ruled yellow pad. Against one of journalism's toughest deadlines-he usually has barely an hour to catch an edition after the first-night curtain falls-he sends his polished copy through in one-paragraph "takes." When a review is finished, he reads the proof...