Word: sharpness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that pioneering lady of psychoanalysis, Anna Freud, 71, delivered some gloomy words on the state of the science at the New York Psychoanalytic Society's annual Freud lecture, named after her father who started it all 70 years ago. Psychoanalysis, observed Anna, seems to be in sharp decline among those it should be helping most, those in the younger generation most confused about self and life. Today's youth, she continued, "is not interested in man's struggle against himself, but in man's struggle against society. Adaptation to society is the last thing they have...
Gregor Piatigorsky has been known to audiences for nearly half a century as one of the world's great cellists. But in the music world, he is almost as noted for his borscht-accented conversation-sharp and sagacious-as for his musicianship. Last week, as he observed his 65th birthday on his rambling estate in Los Angeles, the far-from-retiring Piatigorsky gave one of his inimitable offstage performances in a four-hour talk with TIME'S Los Angeles bureau chief, Marshall Berges. As these excerpts show, he is as much of a verbal virtuoso as ever...
...interest that commercial banks are permitted to pay on large time deposits-money left with a bank for a specified period. The new ceiling applies to "certificates of deposit" of $100,000 or more with maturities of six months or longer. By this action, the Fed hopes to prevent sharp deposit losses, which would further disrupt the already nervous financial markets...
Blue Star. Using the coordinates given by Hewish, Astronomer Frank Drake trained the giant Arecibo, Puerto Rico, radio telescope on pulsar 3 and discovered that each of its signals was composed of two closely spaced peaks. The peaks were so sharp, he said, that the signal may originate from an object as small as a few hundred miles across; if pulsar 3 were much larger, the peaks would be gradual and less distinct. Using England's Jodrell Bank radio telescope, Astronomer Graham Smith discovered that the radio waves from pulsars are polarized, indicating that they pass through a magnetic...
...There is sharp disagreement among Harvard's urbanologists on this last point. The final report had a strong impact, because the composition of the Commission made it look "safe" "Establishment people, businessmen, a police chief, Republicans," one Harvard commentator described the Commissioners...