Word: phobias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glass, Glass, Glass. London had developed a deep and understandable phobia: glass. It had felt the blast of high explosives before. Blast would, as it did, strip the clothing off a woman near a factory window, leave the factory and its machines virtually undamaged. It would, as it did, suck the beer out of a mug in a man's hand, leave the mug, the man and his hand unhurt. It would also kill without leaving a visible wound...
Toward Independence. When such a patient begins to depend on the psychiatrist and accept him as a "supporting presence," he is likely to lose the outward signs of his neurosis-a stiff leg, deafness, forgetfulness, phobia. But if the psychiatrist neglects him or ships him off too soon to another station where he gets some thoughtless rebuff, the neurotic symptom will return. Bad news from home sometimes causes a relapse. "Time is necessary for the patient . . . to test the human environment's sincerity. . . . The Army is not conducive to such testing...
...take risks has practically disappeared. This is especially the case in New York where the big commercial banks have become hardly more than morgues for Government bonds and cash. The half-dozen or so investment banking houses that euphemistically call themselves the 'majors' have developed a positive phobia about taking normal business risks...
Novelist Hurst does not smoke or drink, has a phobia about possessions. Says she: "Of course I own some things. But what I mean is, there are so many which I do not own. No houses in the country, no cars. I won't let myself be buried under bracelets and shields." In her West 67th Street (Manhattan) apartment of 14 rooms and six baths, with a 60-ft. living room, a writing room with wood paneling from a medieval French church, stained glass windows, Author Hurst gets up at 6 a.m., walks in Central Park until 7, then...
Democrats had expected a plea for aid to China; Republican Clare Luce picked a topic of perhaps greater importance: Who will rule the postwar airways? (TIME, Feb. 15). In this new sphere, air-minded Clare Luce sprung an old American phobia: that a shrewd and calculating John Bull is going to hornswoggle a naive and idealistic Uncle Sam unless somebody watches...