Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...actor with wrinkles in his wardrobe, and even a few lines in his face, that they almost reverently decided he must be great. He wasn't, but a lot of moviegoers took his fumbling as a sign of moral earnestness and his hesitation as a symptom of bashful charm. Gotten was typed as a sort of rising young vestryman-safe, but just possibly sexy...
Trigger-nerved, bilious, plagued with insomnia, Carlyle found a captivated as well as a captive audience in wife Jane, who shared all of his symptoms and capped them with migraine headaches of her own. Many a letter finds Carlyle with his ear cupped to the inner symphony of psychosomatic complaints: "Alas, alas, I am losing my eyesight (sad symptom of bile) by stooping over this flat table." In the country, a cow lowing in pasture could ruin his night's sleep. London was all "noise, unwholesomeness, dirt and fret." In Germany, all coffee resembled a "physic." Paris proved...
...symptom of the "awakened interest" in religion, said Bennett, is the attendance at religious services. Each chaplain in Korea has an average of 1,500 men a month at services, an average which compares favorably with a clergyman's listeners back home. Equally significant, General Bennett believes, is the record of G.I. generosity and compassion. Examples...
...tries, for instance, to get a court ruling on segregation in Pullmans instead of trying to "educate" millions of individual Pullman passengers. Today's Negro leader does not want to be known as a firebrand; the compliment he prizes most is to be called "a good tactician." One symptom of this change is the fact that Booker T. Washington, a superb tactician whom most Negro leaders in the '20s and '30s denounced as an "Uncle Tom," is being rediscovered by Negroes as a great...
...second, but they find it virtually impossible. Yet more & more Negroes are impatient with spirituals and the blues (including the literary form of the blues, also known as the novel of protest). Many intelligent Negroes are plainly eager to stop looking at every problem through colored glasses. One interesting symptom: Negroes used to have a kind of secret slang? which, as one Negro writer puts it, was "like a tattoo on your wrist"; it has now all but disappeared. Says Negro Photographer Gordon Parks: "There is this pressure to make good for your whole people. If you fail, they give...