Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dewey's speeches were not electrifying. "As never before," the candidate solemnly declared, "we need a rudder to our ship of state and we need a firm hand at the tiller." When he referred to his opponent he spoke more in sorrow than in anger, never mentioning his name. "We know the kind of government we have now. It's tired. It's confused. It scolds and complains . . . It's coming apart at the seams...
Almost nobody makes bad jokes about her any more, with the exception of the incredible Westbrook Pegler (whose continued toleration is all the proof anyone should need that the U.S. press is free); last week he called her "the Great Gabbo." When she was in London last spring for the unveiling of her husband's monument, men respectfully took off their hats as she passed. The London News Chronicle wrote: "She has walked with kings, but never lost the common touch. Immersed in politics, she has never acquired the hard professionalism of the politician...
Picked by a heavily conservative jury, the other prizewinners were equally somber, equally right of center: Andrew Wyeth's near-photographic Christina Olsen took second, and Karl Zerbe's cluttered but technically clever Actors took third. Wyeth's almost monochromatic study showed that conservatism in art need not imply lack of imagination. Son of famed illustrator N. C. (Treasure Island) Wyeth, he had done justice to his drab subject in a way fresh enough to stop the eye, and hold the mind...
...knowingly of "inferiority complexes." The comic strips and the movies refer familiarly to "frustrations" and "repressions." Psychiatry has been hotly debated and bitterly denounced by clerics (it seems to poach on their preserves), by Communists (it puts too much emphasis on the individual), by materialists (it claims that illness need not have a physical basis)-and even by some doctors...
...pills for ending war, or meeting the threat of the atomic bomb-or even for getting children to stop biting their nails. But the world, he thinks, would be a better place to live in if people were healthier in their minds. Spreading the word.about psychiatry-to folks who need it, and to doctors who don't know much about it-is a job that Dr. Will finds well worth doing...