Word: think
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hopes that as president she will have time to teach again. "I'd like the kids to have more willingness to try things," Margaret Clapp says. "I think that perhaps they should be encouraged to make mistakes-make fools of themselves -and afterward be shown that it doesn't make so much difference after...
Taking his red-slippered ease in the garden of his Riviera villa last week, the frail, friendly painter thought he might do some more portraits: "Someone wants me to try a self-portrait and I've been putting it off and off. Now I rather think I'd like to have a go at it." Meanwhile he supposed he would go on filling his days with sketches of the surrounding landscape, and escorting his pretty wife to the Casino at Monte Carlo now and then in the evenings, for a spot of gambling...
...become a painter!" One day in Paris she had had a date with an art critic, and as a joke he had bought her some paints. "I was an absolute backwoods baby," says O'Brady. "I told him I couldn't think what to paint. 'Paint you and me going to the country on a bicycle,' he suggested...
...Doctors now think that perhaps as many as a third of the 7,500,000 joint-sore U.S. victims of arthritis and other rheumatic diseases have trouble that is primarily "psychogenic," i.e., caused by the emotions. The pain is just as real as if the victim had a physical form of the disease; sometimes the psychogenic rheumatic has inflammations and changes in the blood that show up in laboratory tests, and sometimes not-just as victims of psychosomatic stomach trouble sometimes have ulcers that can be seen in X rays, sometimes have nothing at all to show the doctor...
...rheumatic is insecure, dependent on others but denies his dependence, has trouble adjusting to changes. He finds the world a hostile, dog-eat-dog place, reacts to it violently, but suppresses his emotions; he is sensitive, resents control, drives himself too hard. Said Dr. Ludwig: such patients "do not think in terms of live & let live, but rather of devour or be devoured...