Word: petted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the foes of Freudian psychoanalysis, few are bitterer than psychologists of rival schools. A savagely outhitting example is Andrew Salter, Manhattan behaviorist and hypnotist, splenetic disciple of Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Psychologist Salter paid his disrespects to the Freudians and set out his own pet creed in Conditioned Reflex Therapy (TIME, Oct. 10, 1949). Now older (37) but no mellower, Salter makes another attack in The Case Against Psychoanalysis (Holt...
...Figaro, pet cat at the Moser & Cotins advertising agency, began to look sick, was found to be suffering from ulcers...
This week the $513 million Ford Foundation announced that it is going into the magazine business. Starting in October, the foundation will publish Perspectives U.S.A., a quarterly designed to show people outside the U.S. that "Americans can think as well as chew gum." The magazine, a pet project of the foundation's Associate Director Robert Hutchins, will be uncompromisingly highbrow, and will run original articles and reprints on literature, music, theater, history, philosophy, plus American poetry, fiction, and art. There will be no advertising, propaganda or politics. It will be printed abroad, at first in English, French, German...
Cherington was not as opposed to Maass' specific "pet projects" in the power field as to his "tone of voice," which Cherington felt allowed too much government interference, Cherington agreed federal power projects were good for "scaring" private utilities into more efficient operation. He called for approximately a 25 percent public, 75 percent private mixture for the country...
...there today, after last night," said a Briton queuing for a seat in the gallery. "You'll be surprised," replied a bobby. "They won't miss today's fight." The fight involved Tory plans to levy small charges for medicines and appliances, under Labor's pet socialized health plan. "Unless we restore our precarious [economic] situation," warned Health Minister Harry Crookshank, "it is not the National Health Service which will be destroyed but the very foundations of our economy . . ." The Tories planned to save $56 million by charging a shilling (14?) for prescriptions, $7 for wigs...