Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Behind this modest claim lies what some observers have heralded, perhaps overoptimistically, as a third revolution in mental health. The first was the medical discovery, less than two centuries ago, that the insane were neither criminals nor possessed by demons but sick people whom chains could never heal. The second was Freud's insights into the emotional topography of the mind. The third is crisis intervention: a radical and still experimental attempt to try emotional first aid on someone who seems headed straight for a mental institution. Says Dr. Edward Stainbrook, chairman of the department of psychiatry...
...really won the 1968-69 season? Michael Dann, CBS senior vice president for programming, feels that he did. With CBS in second place midseason, Dann decided to shift Hawaii Five-0 from its 8 p.m. Thursday time slot (where it started opposite Flying Nun and the second half of Daniel Boone) to 10 p.m. Wednesday (against the less formidable competition of The Outsider and a movie). As a result, Hawaii Five-0 climbed from a 26% share of the audience to 37%. Without that shift, NBC might have finished in first place...
...October, the leaders began to level off; for the next five months they zigzagged. During March, to judge by the eight indicators for which the results were in last week, they dropped about 1 %. The apparent shift of the leaders strengthens forecasts of a salutary slowdown in the second half...
Married. Maria Atalanti Livanos, 27, U.S.-born daughter of the late millionaire Greek shipowner George M. Livanos; and Stephane A. Cattaui, 32, French-Egyptian investment banker, vice president and Eurooean representative of Clark, Dodge & Co. Inc.; he for the second time; in a Greek Orthodox ceremony; in Manhattan...
...been replaced by the virtues (and vices) of relentlessly with-it seriousness. Susan Sontag-complete with academic sojourns at Oxford and the Sorbonne, and stints as a philosophy teacher-has proved to be just the girl to play tuned-in scholar to the age of McLuhan. In this, her second collection of essays, she continues to develop the main lines established by an earlier book, Against Interpretation...