Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shingled hair, close cropped, is the latest thing in coiffures, so the girls say, and the number of male-length haircuts on the quad is increasing daily...
Various University officials and their wives were scattered around the room, and around each was a tight circle of car-leaning freshmen. Throughout the room the recent Boston election was a conversational favorite. "Well, I'll say one thing," said one jovial official, "Curley wouldn't live to be 120 if he were an athletic director...
Orthodox psychoanalysis and religion, says Kristol, will never agree on truth. The issue between them is simple and clear-cut. Religion asserts "that the understanding of psychoanalysis is only a dismal, sophisticated misunderstanding, that human reason is inferior to divine reason, that the very existence of psychoanalysis is a symptom of gross spiritual distress . . . Psychoanalysis, religion might say, comes not to remove insanity, but to inaugurate...
During the early years he developed the opening announcement that is still his trademark. "Our biggest problem was what to say when we first went on the air," Brokenshire recalls. "I finally decided on 'How do you do, ladies and gentlemen.' Pretty soon I found that other announcers were copying me. So I added a second 'How do you do' and really underlined...
Working briefly on networks and outlying independent stations, Brokenshire was down, then up, then down. In 1943 he joined Alcoholics Anonymous (Forest Hills, N.Y. group) and now feels that he has a better than even chance. Says he thoughtfully: "Sometimes it takes an awful lot of kicking to get a man straightened out." Though he never mentions drinking on the air, he feels that an intense and sympathetic bond has grown between him and his audience. "Somehow, they can sense I've suffered and that I'm sympathetic to other people's suffering," he says...