Word: spare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seated side by side in the House Education and Labor Committee room were New York's Democratic Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr., pastor of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in his spare time, and West Virginia's Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey, who preaches the gospel pretty much according to John L, Lewis. Under discussion was the $1.6 billion school-construction program and Powell's attempt to amend it so as to bar funds to any school district that practices segregation...
...Spare the Freud and save the child, says Dr. Douglas McGlashan Kelley, professor of criminology at the University of California, who was chief psychiatrist at the Nürnberg trials. Misunderstanding and misapplication of Freudian theory, Dr. Kelley told a summer session at Fresno State College last week, have made parents neurotically fearful of turning their children into neurotics. As a result, he said, the U.S. today may be producing a smaller proportion of neurotics, but it is harvesting a bumper crop of psychopaths, which is worse...
...been hailed either as a revolutionary or a representative poet of his generation. He is of no party, no clique, no decade of time. The impression made by his poems is not of a blaze of fireworks but of a white-hot center. At his least impressive, he is spare and dry; at his peak, his closest neighbors are the lyricists of ancient Greece. Where lesser poets exalt or complain lustily, Graves writes like one who is in perpetual mourning but is also far too proud to take refuge in disillusioned reading or drinking. This combination of subject doom...
...member Lutheran Missouri Synod launched a "Senior Citizens' Project" to take systematic advantage of the spare time and energy of its elder laymen for "God-pleasing endeavors." The synod's Laymen's League will probably appropriate $10,000 to begin the project, prepare a manual to suggest jobs that will benefit both churches and oldsters...
Confidential's small staff works under Editor Howard Rushmore, onetime Communist who was fired as a Hearst reporter (TIME, Nov. 1), partly for contributing in his spare time to Confidential. The editors write Confidential's articles in breezy, breathless tabloid prose, always promising more than they give ("This article will shock you"). One of the best descriptions of the kind of reporting in Confidential and its imitators came from one of the imitators, Top Secret. Said Top Secret: "How cunningly the smear is constructed. It says nothing with finality. It doesn't come right out and claim...