Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harold Fleming, is a restrained tale of violence and race hatred that has no direct message. Prejudice and hate press harder and harder on Berry, the Negro Army sergeant, until he "flies apart like the works of an over wound clock." This is a real short story, so seldom seen hitherto around here, with real characters in real situations...
...McNiff," words almost synonymous with the end of a Widener book hunt, are not heard as often as usual these days. The reason is simple: Philip J. McNiff is seldom around to be asked. The familiar Reading Room superintendent is spending most of his time getting ready for the opening of Lamont Library--selecting the books, planning the interior, figuring out the systems of open and closed reserves. In short, he is getting the chance to put his ideas about the "service nature" of a college library into effect...
...mild, soft-spoken man with a wisp of a smile poking out from beneath his usually serious manner, Mr. McNiff manifests his seldom-called-on Gaelic wrath when he sees the handiwork of the margin marker or the page puller. He is quick to point out that such abuses are the work of the determined minority, for "most of the boys are good lads." While needless rule infractions set poorly with him, he takes no stock in rules for their own sake. Instead, service for everyone is the watchword. Thus books have gone out for more than twelve hours whenever...
Rebecca West rather enjoys it. For with all her warmth of heart and incandescence of mind, she is seldom averse to a good brawl. She listens, calmly poised for pouncing, when she is called a Fascist, a Communist, an anti-Semite, though she is none of those things. The root of the misunderstanding is that in a world racked by partisan passion, which more & more insists on viewing men in black & white, as caricatures of good or evil, she finds them blends of both. Her view asserts the faith that what distinguishes men, not so much from the brutes...
Ever since he was a young psychiatry professor at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Wertham had brooded over the fact that Negroes even if they could afford a psychiatrist' could seldom get one. (Of some 4,500 U.S. psychiatrists, fewer than 25 are Negroes.) With the enthusiastic help of Negro friends, Dr. Wertham and his colleagues found a home for a clinic in the basement of Harlem's St. Philip's Episcopal Church, and opened it to all comers. Fee per treatment (if the patient...