Word: savely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...investigating juvenile delinquency, he has traveled to New York to study the injurious effect of pornographic literature upon teenagers, and to Los Angeles to criticize various motion pictures, e.g., Blackboard Jungle, for stressing sex and violence. As the head of another subcommittee, he has pondered how the U.S. can save itself from hydrogen demolition. He has held hearings on the Bricker Amendment, and as the chairman of still another subcommittee, he has kept the ball rolling against the Dixon-Yates power contract (see above...
Spare the Freud and save the child, says Dr. Douglas McGlashan Kelley, professor of criminology at the University of California, who was chief psychiatrist at the Nürnberg trials. Misunderstanding and misapplication of Freudian theory, Dr. Kelley told a summer session at Fresno State College last week, have made parents neurotically fearful of turning their children into neurotics. As a result, he said, the U.S. today may be producing a smaller proportion of neurotics, but it is harvesting a bumper crop of psychopaths, which is worse...
After liberating French troops knocked out the church again in 1944, a local committee headed by a lawyer, a manufacturer and the curé decided to save on building costs, construct the new church in reinforced concrete. Even in provincial Ronchamp, the name of the best architect for the job was obvious: Swiss-born Charles Edouard Jeanneret. world famous under his professional name, Le Corbusier,* as Europe's leading exponent of reinforced concrete...
...genteel Schanenhauser Foundation makes him, his wife and three children no more than glorified peons on their cash-conscious street in Westport, Conn. His wife Betsy is a brunette charmer with pronounced but somewhat whimsical notions of budgetary discipline ("No more homogenized milk . . . We're going to save two cents a quart and shake the bottle ourselves...
...years ago, Busch scored his biggest advertising coup by buying the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team when the Cardinals' owner, Fred Saigh, was jailed for income-tax evasion. Ostensibly, Busch bought the Cardinals to save them for St. Louis. But he makes no bones about the fact that the team helps him sell more Budweiser. When sportswriters needle him about his commercialism, Busch snorts that Colonel Jacob Ruppert owned the New York Yankees for 30 years while he also owned Ruppert brewery, and that many of the 16 major-league team broadcasts are sponsored by beer companies...