Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...typical problem was that of the salesman whose wife had been discharged from the hospital but was still an outpatient. When she heard that her domineering elder sister was coming to visit her, she got so upset that she wanted to be readmitted. Dr. Gordon tossed out the idea that perhaps the salesman's wife wantec him to tell her sister where to get off Several husbands present thought this was a good idea. Finally, the salesman agreec...
...More Forceful." "He girded himself up like Galahad," says Gordon, "and told his sister-in-law that his wife wasn't in shape to see her." His sister-in-law was furious at first, but stayed away; his wife calmed down, and all was well. Dr. Gordon told the husband: "Unconsciously, your wife wanted you to be more forceful. By being so, you've learned to understand her better...
...Emperor's sister-in-law, Princess Chichibu, and 200 other Japanese and foreign dignitaries attended I.C.U.'s formal dedication ceremonies. Said I.C.U.'s first president, Zoologist Hachiro Yuasa, a third-generation Japanese Christian: "International Christian University is fundamentally a university of tomorrow . . . born out of the tragedies of war and dedicated to the proposition that truth and truth alone shall make men and nations free." Requirements for faculty members, as set by President Yuasa: firm scholarship and "dynamic" Christianity...
...willing to put the blame on her husband, recently dead, to save her lover's head. Her stepson, Diomede, fearful of losing his inheritance, buys the testimony of a prostitute that his late father spent the murder night with her. The prostitute, egged on by a money-mad sister, sells conflicting testimony to the boy's aunt. A kindly priest is torn by the Prince's demand that he tell the secrets of the confessional. Alone among the townspeople, Sperone, a poor, Christlike dyer, loves his fellow men enough to try to end the orgy of hate...
WHRB, after it recovered from a case of hurt pride, bravely declared it would be an uninterested observer from here on. Nevertheless, the sister of WHRB's president has circulated a petition at Radcliffe endorsing the installation of a WHRB transmitter at Radcliffe...