Word: topical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your article on dianetics is on the whole a capable and lucid job of reporting on a topic of great significance. It is somewhat unfortunate, however, that . . . the specter of hypnotism was allowed to rear its ugly head in your article-when you neglect to state specifically that precise and positive precautions are always taken in each dianetic therapy session to prevent the patient from slipping even accidentally into a trance...
...Japan last week, for the first time since the U.S. occupation, Japanese openly talked rearmament. In Western Germany, plain Germans talked rearmament too, but there the topic was no longer new. In Western Germany the question was not if, but when...
Among males with slightly bulging waistlines, the standard topic was whether "the old uniform" would still fit. In San Francisco, where the road show of South Pacific was being advertised, people asked when they could get "two tickets on the aisle to 'South Korea.' " Recruiting offices there, as elsewhere, were bombarded with anxious teen-age pleas for advice. They weren't rushing to sign up; they just wanted to know where they stood...
Adelman wrote about "The Dominant Firm with Special Reference to the A&P Tea Company"; Bressler's topic was "City Milk Distribution...
This message, addressed to Metropolitan President Roland L. Redmond, appeared in Manhattan newspapers last week. Because many of the 28 painters and sculptors who signed it are abstract artists of advanced reputation, it was bound to raise a storm of controversy over Topic A in the art world today: How abstract...