Word: adjustment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, in a sermon called "Communist Dynamics and the Hope of Peace." the onetime Methodist minister drew a badly needed, clear-cut line between liberalism and Communism. Said he: "Communism is a sincere but psychopathic attempt to adjust the life of man hurriedly to the world of the machine. . . . Its fatal defect is that wherever its principles are applied man loses and the machine wins. This is inherent in the nature of Communism because its faith is not in man but in social mechanics...
...Army's top psychiatrist, Brigadier General William C. Menninger, hit the ceiling when he read Dr. Uhler's charges, retorted last week in the A.M.A. Journal that Dr. Uhler himself "lacked the capacity to adjust"-i.e., must have been an eight ball. U.S. psychiatrists got ready to debate their own claims and pretensions as well as their Army gripes...
...Sights. Camillien Houde had to adjust his ideas to a new generation of French Canadians. But to tourists' eyes, at least, the country of the seigneurs still looked the same...
...short, they said, Pan Am no longer had a monopoly in Latin America and Juan Trippe could no longer run things as he pleased; if Pan Am did not adjust to the new conditions, the air ahead was going to be bumpier than ever...
Alcoholism is a symptom of illness, not a disease in itself. A pathologic drinker gets that way for a number of reasons: as escape (from his job, a nagging wife, depression); because he cannot adjust his personality to the normal course of life; by the "one for the road" philosophy which leads him away from controlled drinking; through mental illness, physical pain or immature emotional makeup. No one is born an alcoholic; heredity is only an excuse...