Word: wellborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Psychotherapy has not yet been proved more effective than general medical counseling in treating neurosis or psychosis. In general, therapy works best with people who are young, wellborn, well educated and not seriously sick. The more like the therapist, the more curable the patient...
Died. John Wellborn Root, 76, Chicago architect, senior partner of Holabird & Root, son and namesake of the co-designer of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, who himself changed the city's skyline in the '20s and '30s with the Palmer House, the Daily News and Palmolive buildings, pioneered in the use of glass-curtain walls with Milwaukee's A. O. Smith engineering building, which antedated Manhattan's celebrated Lever House by 25 years; of pneumonia; in North Falmouth, Mass...
Though not as wellborn as Sister Virginia, Osio belonged to a gang of reckless noblemen who "did nothing night and day but roam the streets armed with forbidden weapons, breaking into houses, assaulting now this one, now that, giving them wounds." To accomplish the seduction of the nun, Osio frequently attended Mass at the convent, sent intermediaries with gifts of silver crucifixes and other valuables, and even employed a licentious priest to help him achieve a persuasive elegance in his love letters...
...Favourite of the Gods, by Sybille Bed ford. Grand opera without music, about the dynastic rich of 19th century Europe, by a novelist with a fine feel for the trials of being wellborn...
...this engaging second novel. Author James Stevenson, 33, displays Marquand's feel for the half rueful, wholly droll confrontation between the really wellborn and those who are merely born to do well. But he is less interested in dynastic decay than in dilettante dilemma. The islanders' big "fight McKinney" meeting bogs down in bickering about whether or not a mole has been gnawing at croquet court number three, and the whole argument becomes entirely academic when a pair of McKinney's bulldozers crash onto the court in the middle of the annual tournament. A hapless adulterer, surprised...