Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychiatrists pointed out that during the war children often survived the most unnerving experiences psychologically intact so long as a parent was with them, but quickly collapsed when alone, the experiences becoming "enormously important the moment they break up family life." Concluded the psychiatrists: the "women and children first" rule should be modified "by insistence that a parent accompany the child, even if the only parent available be the father...
...backward glance at ten years could not hide the fact that TV is often still pretty Infantile. It made even plainer, though, that the infant is indeed fabulous...
...McCoy from a trio that includes two impostors or "side men." Each of the panelists is permitted a few questions to separate the cheats from the right chap, but the liars usually put on a more convincing act than the real item or "central character," and their own occupations often make nice contrasts to the truth...
...through intensive briefings with the "central character." "We like real switches - such as the parachute salesman and the guy who sells accident insurance posing as an Empire State Building window washer, or the publisher of the Fisherman acting like the president of the Liars' Club." Side men are often asked to read up on the profession they are faking...
...fine, quiet steadiness," was called upon to sigh courageously: "I am born again." Though Iris was the kind of frothy pink lady that TV shakes up every day, Margaret gave it the sort of warm, simple-blonde-and-blue-eyed glow that the headier highballs of TV drama often lack...