Word: schizoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record-buying public, this schizoid spectacle has been confusing, to say the least. Why go on buying the old 78s, when 45s or 33-⅓s are obviously the coming thing? But which of the two new types to buy? Columbia's Long Playing 33⅓, s whose microgrooves can hold a whole symphony on two sides, have an advantage in convenience over Victor's small 453 for long classical selections. Also, Columbia's seven-inchers are quite as good for popular music as RCA's seven-inchers, though there are as yet few automatic record...
...Schizoid Mouse. Vishinsky was still talking. ". . . Mr. Dulles . . . reminded me of the fox who . . . sang encomiums and paeans of praise to the crow which was holding some cheese in her mouth. Well, the fox was only waiting for the crow to start singing...
...much desperate hope for U.N.'s success bring forth such a schizoid mouse of futility? It was not the fault of the delegates-mostly hardworking, second-rate men who would have done no better had they been first-rate. U.N. could not stand above the nations because it was created by nations who wished nothing to stand above their sovereignty. And why was that? Because these nations did not recognize, as individuals within a nation did, the same basic laws; they were not parts of the same society. The Communist leaders had known this for 40 years...
...model. A dullard on a quiz program racks her brains for the name of the Father of His Country. Some soap-opera actors fight out a love crisis ("We are but straws in the wind," the unfaithful husband explains to his wife), their faces embattled in the schizoid struggle between sincerity and nausea which is one of the occupational diseases of soap-opera acting...
...Oriental rice-growing. He had labored to preserve the best of both East and West for himself and his fellow Annamites. Even now his wife was in France, where his two fair-skinned daughters, whose photographs stood on his ordered desk, were in school. Dr. Thinh summed up his schizoid philosophy by calling himself a Buddhist Socialist...