Word: welling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sand. To visitors last week, the foundry was still the place of weird shapes and leaping shadow that Duchamp-Villon and Brancusi knew well. In one room, sweet-smelling brown wax boiled on a rosy, potbellied stove. In the 100-ft.-long casting shed, coke fires hissed under fat crucibles shaped like medieval cannons, and overhead hoists trundled swaddled casts to their firing-pits. In a finishing room, a workman lay in the arms of a large bronze nude, reverently polishing her nose. In another corner, Marc Chagall supervised the application of a patina to his latest piece. Mustache quivering...
...newspapers that smolder indignantly over the transgressions of others, said Estabrook, might well take a good look at their own: "Recently, the press became very exercised about morality when Charles Van Doren put on his show of contrition. But our indignation would be better founded, and more credible, if we also managed to muster a few olfactory shudders about the garbage in our own backyard. Better yet, we might even try to clean...
...make reference to 'high officials,' 'Administration circles' and the 'well-informed source.' Sometimes the 'well-informed source' is genuinely that, but occasionally it may be nothing more than a colleague at the press-club...
...doctors and their scientific training are partly to blame, Dr. Menninger suggests: "We doctors are so schooled against permitting ourselves to believe the intangible or impalpable or indefinite that we tend to discount the element of hope, its reviving effect as well as its survival function." In psychiatry especially, he argues, there used to be an "impression that 'our patients never get well.' " In fact, says Dr. Menninger, the best thing that psychiatrists can do for their patients is to "light for them a candle of hope to show them possibilities that may become sound expectations...
...refusing to write new life insurance for generations of heart-disease victims, the insurance industry is catching up with newer medical thinking: these patients are not necessarily such bad risks as they were once rated. But the penalty premiums are still steep: a man of 50 who has done well for 13 months after a heart attack must pay annually $100 to $125 per $1,000 of insurance as against $40 for a man in full health. The penalty drops with longevity: at 60, he may be paying only $15 to $20 additional. Last week, physicians for the Equitable Life...