Word: whimper
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...when a televiewer selects a program on WGBH that interests him, he can expect it to end with a bang, not a whimper. Commercial stations must lop off programs or stretch them out to fit their advertiser's wallets; WGBH hopes to let its programs time themselves. "They'll be like Lincoln's legs," the Director of Programs declares, "long enough to reach the ground...
...never bad to pick up a crying baby unless he has already been spoiled by being picked up too often at the slightest whimper, Sheffield's Professor Ronald S. Illingworth wrote in the British Medical Journal. The only time it is right to let a child "cry it out" is when he is being broken of a crying habit for which parents are to blame...
...vapid figures. Miss Lang's poem, in spite of the skill of its language (whose beauty must be assessed through its sustained tone rather than by individual lines), manipulates its whole argument in terms of the academism which it purports to attack, and sounds finally more like a whimper than a harangue...
...Wolfe as her guest, Imogene Coca (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC) did little better with song and a strained set of sketches. Only in one skit-Motorist Coca trying to get through a toll station without a dime-did she show her talent for getting laughs with the famous whimper...
...mother who sleeps through the roar of an airplane overhead but leaps up at the first little whimper from her baby is not necessarily sleeping less soundly or restfully than her husband. Impulses from the higher brain centers are "fired back" to the waking center, and the mother has conditioned herself to respond only to certain ones...