Word: wrongness
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...third of all the people who go to doctors suffer primarily from emotional disorders, says Dr. Ebaugh. Often a doctor can find nothing organically wrong with the patient, but is afraid that another physician may. So he hedges his report to the patient, leaving him confused and worried. Dr. Ebaugh calls this the "mug-wumping technique of trying to be right in any event...
...Doubter. Sometimes the doctor's anxiety is vented in hostility. When he says ". . . Damn neurotic-nothing wrong with him," Dr. Ebaugh believes that it can be translated as: "This patient is emotionally disturbed . . . I am doubtful of my own capabilities. By denying that the patient is sick, and depreciating him as being not worthwhile, I feel less threatened...
...first comments on his new job that Publisher Sulzberger received was a postcard from an indignant subscriber: "I knew the Times would go to hell as soon as Mr. Ochs died. My name was spelled wrong in the paper this morning...
...ideal in the first place). The Times has long liked to feel that if it gives both sides of a question, or at least two versions, it has done its journalistic job. Sometimes this brings nothing but confusion to the reader, sometimes gives a completely wrong impression. In its tradition of "factual" journalism, the Times policy has been to print newsworthy statements of eminent citizens, Senators and other supposedly responsible people without qualification as long as the words were not libelous. But even Timesmen are wondering latterly whether its policy has not been proved false by the complexity of modern...
...attempting so much, The Big Lift becomes overlong and somewhat unwieldy. But where the picture really goes wrong, and badly, is in having Douglas spout repeated primer-level sales talks for democracy at his girl friend; the result is clumsy propaganda in a movie that would be excellent propaganda without...