Word: towards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned down. "The letter made it clear . . . that the U.S. for the moment is in short pants and that until it gets back to adult ways there is nothing to do but be gently intolerant of its behavior. It is not easy to have any other attitude toward America in a tantrum, there is so much of ourselves in its people...
...named Father of the Year, decided to try it again. Aping Henry Wallace, he got off an open letter to Joseph Stalin: "I propose that we, the American people, again organize a Friendship Train ... to the children of Russia . . . Your acceptance . . . might be a milestone in avoiding the war . . . toward which we seem to be drifting." Pearson made the implications clear to his 30 million readers. If Stalin does not "act on it . . . then we will know exactly where we stand with Russia. We will know-and can tell Europe-that Russia is the real warmonger...
Caricatured Psychiatrists. When he discusses Kinsey's attitude toward psychiatrists, Dr. Kubie loses his proper bedside manner entirely. It almost seems, he laments, that the Kinsey Report is trying to caricature the psychiatrist. He cites one statement: "There are some psychoanalysts who contend that they never had a patient who has not had incestuous relations." Snapped Kubie: "There has never been and never will be any psychoanalyst who has made such a statement . . . We expect such distortions from occasional biased and irresponsible ignoramuses, but not from responsible fellow scientists...
Columbia University Psychiatrist Abram Kardiner attacked what he called Kinsey's plea for tolerance toward perversion. Moral laws that separate men from the other animals are not "historical happenstance"; they grew, he said, out of necessity for control...
Millions of U.S. men, up before draft examiners in World War I and II, had their hearing tested by one simple method. The tester stood them against a wall, backed away 20 feet, started speaking in a low conversational tone, walked toward them, asked them to indicate when they could hear what he was saying. Does this test-which the Army, the Navy and the Veterans Administration still use-prove anything? No, says Dr. Aram Glorig, director of aural rehabilitation at the Army Medical Center in Washington...