Word: relaxing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chert's French Creole Pecan Pie ("My great-grandmother said her mother's family had the recipe . . . after eating, it is usually best to pull up an easy chair and relax...
...Does It Work? How does a psychiatrist straighten out the conflicts? Freud, after finding hypnotism inadequate, devised the most sneered-at tool in all psychiatry: the couch. The couch is supposed to make the patient relax. The analyst places his chair at the head of the couch, where he is unseen by the patient. The idea is to get the patient to put all his thoughts and feelings into words. Such "free association" is the essence of psychoanalysis...
...appearing at the same time as Fred Allen, has caused the bag-eyed comedian's Hooperating to drop far below sea level. This week, Allen made a heroic try at recapturing some of the prize-greedy fans. After an opening fanfare, Allen's announcer advised listeners to relax, because "for the next thirty minutes you are guaranteed." He explained that Allen had arranged with the National Surety Corp. to replace any article of merchandise, or any cash up to $5,000, that any listener might lose because he was listening to Allen instead of a give-away show...
...high, narrow rooms may cramp you and the squeaking floors disturb your study. But remember, next year you will probably move into the much newer and more luxurious Houses along the river. Even as incipient carnal knowledge, the best course of action towards the housing situation is to relax and enjoy...
Austrian in Edinburgh. Last week the man who blueprinted the festival could relax. With justifiable pride, Rudolf Bing could say: "We have sold a quarter of a million tickets in three weeks, not for a sporting event, but for Mozart operas, a Greek tragedy [John Gielgud's production of Robinson Jeffers' Medea], Hamlet in French and high-class orchestral music...