Word: psychically
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This reduction of ideas to platitudes, this perpetual emotional filibuster relying on psychic sensationalism and insights as adaptable and obvious as children's blocks that are numbered and lettered, is depicted, on the whole, with wryness. The warning lies beneath the mockery...
...identified with some positive ide al. In the beginning, we stood for liberty, even before we implemented liberty in our own society. Similarly, today, the identification of the U.S. with some thing more than just consumption is essential to our own wellbeing, to our own psychic stability and to the American role in the world. But we shouldn't be strident. Our policy should be more an affirmation than a blunt or sharp instrument of political warfare...
Danny Kaye, L.H.D., entertainer. He helped us to maintain our psychic balance through some of our most anxiety-ridden decades...
...below, can inspire wonderment and envy. Who could not feel underpaid when contemplating the $1.662 million that Harry J. Gray made last year as chief executive of United Technologies? In the face of such sums, ordinary Americans may ward off envy by remembering that they are also rewarded with "psychic income" (community regard, the feeling of being useful). Yet given the news that Marlon Brando is getting $2.25 million for 12 days of playacting-well, which of the vast hand-to-mouth crowd will not wonder whether psychic income is really preferable to a tax problem...
...Psychic Return. One of the siren songs of newsletter publishing is the shoestring startup cost-typically $10,000, v. 50 to 100 times that much to start a magazine. "All you need is a typewriter, a mimeograph machine and an idea," says Ken Galloway, who founded Capitol Publications in Washington, D.C., eleven years ago with $750 in his pocket; today the firm publishes 19 letters, has a staff of 45 and grosses $2.5 million. Once established, overhead is low and profits are high. For the editors, there are less tangible rewards, like virtually complete freedom of expression. "The psychic return...