Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conversation Wing-Ding. Of all things, Mr. De perhaps loved best a good wingding of a conversation; in one evening's discussion he dwelt perceptively on Diego Rivera, the habits of alligators, Dickens, the Oklahoma legislature, fine printing, Arabian oil, academic freedom, the winter treatment for banana trees in Dallas patios. And what he most abhorred, in his vain way, was weakness-especially weakness of the intellect. Aging, the sight of one eye totally gone, he began to suffer the blood-draining anguish of aplastic anemia. He feared that somehow his mind soon would be affected, found the thought...
...kissing" has been banned. Childbirth may now be "treated within the careful limits of good taste." Abortion may be "suggested," but must be seriously "condemned." Seduction, rape, adultery and fornication "shall not be explicitly treated, nor . . . justified." Prostitutes and their managers are now restricted to a once-over-lightly treatment. But the ban stays on perversion and venereal disease. If occasion demands, infants' sex organs may now be exposed. ¶ Narcotics. Drug addiction and all its byproducts may now be freely depicted, but only if damned on all counts. ¶ Bigotry and Prejudice. Miscegenation may now be handled discreetly...
...South's 38 biggest dailies (all but a dozen of which editorially defend segregation) are now playing desegregation stories "straight down the line," seem less inclined to emphasize news that depicts the Negro in a bad light. Said Shoemaker: "The feeling at first was that any news treatment of the problem would be resented by readers, because it was such a highly touchy subject. Now newspapers have found readers don't resent it, and use their own staffs to cover the problem instead of relying on the news services. There is more reporting in depth...
...Peace. An uneven but brilliantly pictorial treatment of Tolstoy's great novel, with some outstandingly good battle pieces; with Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn. Mel Ferrer (TIME, Sept...
...Employment Office reserves very special treatment for freshmen desiring regular work. Since they are allowed to work only in dining halls, libraries, dormitories, and two or three offices at the University, they naturally receive first consideration for these positions. But special treatment extends beyond this. About once a week, the Office makes an informal check on all the freshmen. This is usually done by a casual telephone talk, a chance conversation, or maybe even by a short note. And occasionally the student himself will come to the Office to report...