Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...word here about the Boston Tea Party, which is a fine organization run by the Hippie Establishment, and has intelligent light shows and sensible facilities...
...doomed. There were a few hopeful signs, but nothing that was important enough to slow down Nixon's momentum. The South Dakota poll showed Rocky as the strongest candidate for President, despite Nixon's victory in last month's uncontested primary there. He got a good word from Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, who called him the best candidate still on the political scene...
Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox, 52, is a man of few words, his favorite one normally being the all-purpose expletive "Phooey!" On occasion, Maddox applies it personally to irksome political critics and statehouse correspondents ("Phooey on you, phooey on you, and phooey on you!"). Last week Atlanta Attorney James H. Moore and a band of reporters hatched up their revenge with something called a "Phooey-gram," a telegram sent directly to Maddox bearing nothing save the sender's name and one word-"Phooey." Already hundreds of Phooey-grams have been wired to the capitol, and Moore plans...
...Psychoanalyst Bruno Bettelheim, "yes" is the most important word in the English language. Yes, he says, children suffering from the most severe forms of schizophrenia can be cured. Yes, he says, children who have been judged unalterably delinquent or diagnosed as mentally deficient can grow up into mature, functioning adults-even into Harvard professors. Bettelheim's principal prescription is almost total positivism. Whatever his patients ask, he usually says...
Electric Boy. The greatest effort is made with the Orthogenic School's autistic children. Thwarted or ignored in early childhood by hostile or indifferent parents, victims of autism (from the Greek word for self) sense during infancy that their own actions cannot shape their lives. Consequently, they withdraw into a living-death fantasy existence characterized by fear and stony silence-or, at best, by unintelligible animal noises. Unwilling to admit their own existence because they fear that the outside world will destroy them, many autistics refuse to use the pronoun "I" if and when they do speak...