Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Johnson drew up a list of the top dozen U.S. architects Phyllis might visit. Interviewing each in turn, she asked a basic question: "Given the problem of an office building in New York, who is going to make the greatest contribution?" When she discovered "everybody seemed to be talking in Mies's terms or denying him," her search was ended...
...Lucy, in turn, is heartlessly rebuffed by Schroeder, a kindergarten longhair who dotes only on Beethoven and practices interminably on a toy piano. Sighs she: "I'll probably never get married." Other Peanuts regulars: thumb-sucking Linus, who battles grimly for the security of a tattered blanket; a mud-caked urchin called Pig-Pen ("A human soil bank," sniffs Violet); and Snoopy, a pooch of many talents, few of which are appreciated by his peers...
Britain's proliferating women's weeklies, twelve in all (total circ. about 10.4 million), are the Cinderellas of postwar publishing. The bestsellers charge some of the highest space rates in Britain (up to $10,500 for a four-color page) and have to turn away business to keep the magazines down to manageable size (limit: 80 pages). The top rivals. Woman (circ. 3.462,488) and Woman's Own (circ. 2.556,130), alone have quadrupled circulation, last year boosted their prices to fivepence (6?) without flinching...
...together with but a single thought in mind: the care and catching of men. Thus, unlike such U.S. monthlies as Good Housekeeping and McCall's, most British women's magazines seldom brood over weighty social problems. Explains one of their top executives: "All other magazines turn people outward and away from themselves. Women's magazines deliberately invite the woman to think about herself...
...call girls had a variety of defenses: since none was effective, they switched from one to another and clung pathetically to each in turn: 1) projection (insisting that all women would be promiscuous if they dared); 2) denial ("It's not sex"); 3) reaction formation (taking refuge in opposites, i.e., if homosexual, they tried to act heterosexual; if dependent and passive, they tried to act independent and aggressive); 4) self-abasement, amounting to masochism and self-destructiveness...