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...faults, Burnham observes, a little condescendingly, the U.S. businessman is basically loyal to American ideals and will take his proper place in the struggle against Communism. Says Burnham: "I have no sympathy and little patience with those inverse Philistines . . . who sneer so easily at business and businessmen . . . There are motives more injurious than the search for profit; and [businessmen] did not need slave camps to people their frontiers. If this country is 'basely materialistic' in its 'philosophy,' then let it be noted that such materialism is the cause of less suffering and more joy than most...
...Bucky three years ago incorporated himself as the nonprofit (and taxexempt) Fuller Research Foundation. Businessmen may sneer at Bucky, but artists are more sympathetic. Last week 91 Chicago artists (most of them young abstractionists) contributed their paintings, sculptures and photographs to a Chicago art auction that raised $700 for Bucky...
...usefulness. Its methods are vague, its treatment is long drawn out, and more often than not, its results are insipid and unimpressive." With this blast against his rivals and competitors, Salter opens his Conditioned Reflex Therapy (Creative Age; $3.75), published last week. The book is more than a sneer at psychoanalysis and its father, Sigmund Freud; it is also a loose-jointed exposition of the wonders of Author Salter's own specialty, behavioristic psychology. Freud's followers, says Salter, waste their patients' time (and money) on an interminable dredging of the past. Salter is confident that...
Your bilious reviewer gives I Was a Male War Bride [TIME, Sept. 12] the full sneer treatment, but I saw a respectable audience laugh at it loudly and often...
...defense had loftily announced that it was going to win not only acquittal but vindication in the trial. But Stryker sounded like a man trying not so much to vindicate his client as to get him off. He fled from accusing facts, or brushed them off with a sneer. Seemingly counting on sheer noise to drown out doubts, he assaulted the jury with windblown oratory...