Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looked you up in the Kinsey report And you're just...
Wrote Columnist Dorothy Thompson: "While [the report] may be corrective of attitudes having no relationship to reality, [it] also hold the danger of being used to justify unbridled license. If this interpretation is drawn from a report so dubiously representative, its results may do more evil than good...
John J. Pershing's adjutant, pooh-poohing a radio report that the 87-year-old general was critically ill, described the patient as "chipper and cheerful...
...Cures" & Quacks. Did Freud give up hypnotism too soon? Authors Wolfe and Rosenthal, sure that he did, report hypnotic effects that make Svengali* look like a tyro. They claim that hypnotism has cured numerous cases of psychoneurosis, made childbirth painless and alcoholics sober. They reassure prospective patients by saying that no one can be forced to act against his moral principles while in a trance (e.g., a girl cannot be hypnotically seduced if she does not want to be; if she does, the authors add gravely, "hypnosis is an unnecessarily involved and roundabout route...
...York City schoolkids, crouching on sidewalks over their games of marbles, wild life means the alley cat screeching on the back fence. The closest they get to nature is the neighborhood park. This week, a committee of New York's Board of Education released a glowing report on an experiment in outdoor education. Last summer, the board had sent 62 fifth-and seventh-graders to a LIFE camp in the lake-&-woodlands of New Jersey. Unlike previous LIFE camps, which have been holidays, this one was on classroom time...