Word: shortsightedness
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¶ Psychologist Ernest Dichter, specialist in motivational research-"MR" to Madison Avenue clients (TIME, May 13)-probed the motives of both doctor and patient, told a forum of 1,000 physicians in Washington that they should abandon the "father image" role of the old-style family doctor. Dichter advised: "Accept...
Back came Ike at his press conference last week to remind Schoeppel and his fellow mavericks that more people voted for a victorious Republican President in 1956 than ever before. Apart from proving that presidential support is anything but a handicap, Ike went on to spread the handwriting on the...
Huckleberry Finn is not a Ku Klux Klan pamphlet. To drop this book from the textbook list is a shortsighted educational policy. Surely this acknowledged classic presents life in terms universal enough to out-weigh its incidental provincial slants. Let the latter be considered in historical terms and not taken...
Smith College's Howard Rollin Patch, 67, for years one of the most formidable figures on campus ("Examinations should be written as if the students were under gunfire"). A Harvard Ph.D., Patch became an authority on Chaucer, was so identified with his hero that a student once greeted him...
When Publisher William Randolph Hearst at 88 shuffled off his editorial coil, his most fabulous legacy was his California barony-on-the-Pacific (375 sq. mi. in its heyday) known as San Simeon. Through the 14 Hearst newspapers last week, W.R.H.'s sundry heirs and the Hearst Corp.-good...