Word: pleasingness
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This summer Dr. Zinsser published a transparently disguised autobiography called As I Remember Him-The Biography of R. S. (TIME, July 1). The initials R. S. stood for "Romantic Self." In that book Zinsser revealed that he was an agnostic, that he did not know what lay beyond the last...
Said the Commission: "The American people must not repeat the mistakes of the European democracies. Without becoming victims of hysteria, they should resolutely refuse to nourish pleasing illusions and should proceed in all haste to prepare for the worst . . . gird themselves to face the darkest period of their history. . . . In...
Meanwhile, in Finland, a brilliant young architect named Alvar Aalto and his architect wife, Aino, really got somewhere with modern furniture. Influenced by the Bauhaus and Le Corbusier (real name: Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), but experimenting in plywood instead of steel, they smoothed out geometric kinks, turned out chairs which combined...
But these extremes account for only a little over 1% of the sample studied. Much more common are two types in which the three components are well balanced, the 4433 and 4445. Such people are sleek, says Author Sheldon. "They groom well, they are relaxed, they are well filled out...
Wildest man was hot-eyed Eugene ("Goober") Cox of Camilla, Ga., Tory hatchetman who dominates the House Rules Committee. Mr. Cox felt the fury that comes only to those who outsmart themselves. Intent on sabotaging the act, he rammed to the floor three sets of amendments sponsored by Graham Barden...