Word: worrier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Worrier. If Twelve is blithe, Thirteen is reflective, abstracted. He may join the family to watch TV for a while, but he will abruptly rise and leave the room for no reason at all. He often likes to be alone, begins locking up his possessions to keep them from younger brothers and sisters. He makes detailed criticisms of his parents' faults, and his parents are often hurt by his constant withdrawal or by his tendency to lavish his affection on a friend...
...painfully sensitive and can feel an intense sadness. If he is hard on others, he is even harder on himself. He spends more time than ever in front of the mirror, and there can be "agonizing concern if the reflected image proves too disappointing." Thirteen is a worrier. "He says himself that he 'worries about most everything,' or that he worries that he is going to worry...
MARTIN : I have indeed. I am a professional worrier...
...outside world the corporation president is the embodiment of sleek self-assurance, but to those who know him best he is a hagridden worrier with an "almost masochistic capacity for self-criticism." So says Lyle M. Spencer, himself a president (of Science Research Associates) and personnel expert, in a report in the current Harvard Business Review on the results of a three-year quiz of the more than 950 members of the Young Presidents Club...
...confidential interviews about their relations with the boss. When it was all over, the psychologist summoned the president. "You're asking for it," he said. "It has to start with you." With frankness he ticked off the president's business faults, portraying him as a penny-pinching worrier about small details, an employer who refused to delegate authority to his staff, an indecisive person who would not let underlings make decisions. "It's an afternoon I'll never forget," the company president said afterward. "Never before have I paid out so much to feel so miserable...