Word: phobias
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
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...
...Pondered a new Treasury proposal for a "spending tax" designed to encourage war savings, discourage war spending, provide needed revenue without recourse to the New Dealers' pet phobia-a general sales tax. People would pay the spending tax along with their income tax on that part of their income they do not use for war bonds, life insurance, capital investment, and debt pre-payments...