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Word: taylorish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outward signs of mourning-veils and widow's weeds, black hat-and armbands, crape-hung doorways-are going the way of the hearse pulled by plumed horses. There is almost no social censure against remarrying a few months after bereavement in what one psychiatrist calls "the Elizabeth Taylorish way" (referring to her statement six months after Husband Mike Todd was killed in a plane crash: "Mike is dead now, and I am alive"). Many psychologists who have no quarrel with the life-must-continue attitude are dubious about the decline in expression of grief. Psychology Professor Harry W. Martin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON DEATH AS A CONSTANT COMPANION | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

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