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...dolphins; a bit of an ancient maritime chart; a square rigger. A great tapestry alone adorns the walls. Here, at a massive oak desk sits the massive youngest Scripps, editorial director of 25 newspapers, amid a sombre ruggedness that seems a filial translation of the father's hardiness complex...
...asked and was granted a court order changing his surname to Gale because, said he, the name "Gump" had a dictionary meaning of "simpleton," had been "widely advertised by cartoonists" as that of "a funny-faced comedian," and that by bearing it he had "gradually developed an inferiority complex." Next day "Andy" Gale's father appeared before the judge to ask the order be voided. He said his son's wife, not his son's feelings, had prompted the change. He cried: "Gump is a very honorable name in the part of Pennsylvania from which we come...
...vegetarian, largely meat, fat-poor, salt-poor, vitamin-rich, sugar-poor, carbohydrate-rich, only milk and largely nut diets?with the expectancy that soon someone will exploit a blubber diet. . . . All these dietary regimens seem to succeed in ratio to the psychological influence of the adviser and the psychopathic complex of the advisee." He advised merely eating less ordinary foods and being satisfied with a pound a week loss of weight...
...each generation is to consider not only economic theory but the whole gamut of the complex sociological factors existing at the time and to stimulate progress. ... So far as possible it should avoid creating new dangers for its successors...
...longer enough to keep down prices, to prevent discrimination, to establish minimum standards in working conditions. Much more is demanded of the economic system today. ... I know of no formula and of no program by which such objectives can be obtained in a social system which is as complex as our own. It may be possible for the Russians, who have started from zero, to build up a satisfactory social system by centralized initiative. We have no right to prejudice them. . . . [But] while the Russians may be building a very modern house on very modern foundations, they are building their...