Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skinny necks and scrawny chests have long been noted as physical characteristics of epileptics. Many epileptics also have small hearts and underdeveloped blood vessels. But until Drs. Temple Sedgwick Fay and Michael Scott of Philadelphia's Temple University began to study these "grotesque deviations" no physician had ever thought of correlating epileptic convulsions with general physical development. Last week, at the Chicago meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Drs. Fay and Scott reported a brilliant contribution to the baffling problem of epilepsy...
...Dodge's President, Louis Shattuck Gates, tall, pleasant, frank, fond of playing poker (because "you can only get mad at yourself if your guess is wrong") remained one rebel against price cutting. Anti-Ford in philosophy, he kept his price at 10½ and consoled himself with the thought that his competitors were bad poker players-while they got the business...
Last week old Dan Willard, eyes flashing, still insisted valiantly: "If I thought business conditions were to remain as bad as they are, I would say put us into receivership. . . . The railroads are going to :ome back again. ... I haven't lost confidence in the United States...
Since then Nelson Rockefeller has thought of art, and now thinks of the Museum of Modern Art, as a quality of style that can just as well pervade as it can be at odds with modern commercial society. He is proud of the pioneer work the Museum has done, prouder that "last year our traveling shows were exhibited in over 250 cities and towns. . . ." He admires the great art collectors but has not emulated them. He buys sculpture for his desk (last week he had a woodcarving by William Steig), paintings for his walls, wishes that all men could...
...short, lack of something to say. Therefore, those people who attend art exhibits because it is the thing to do--pseudo-aesthetes who come well stocked with the latest artistic catchwords and cliches--are advised to stay as far away from this presentation as possible. The combination of internal thought and external appeal, the juxtaposition of the serious and the light, make this exhibit more than merely interesting. It has guts and is meant for living people...