Word: afflicted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their troubles with the Old Age and Survivors Insurance system, the Amish are victims of the irreversible bloat that seems to afflict social-welfare plans. From modest beginnings in 1937, when it applied only to regular employees and nicked only 1% from their paychecks, OASI has expanded in both coverage and bite. Once Congress extended the system to farmers four years ago, it was plainly necessary for the Federal Government to make the Amish pay up: laws must apply to all alike. But the plight of the Amish was a footnote reminder that the welfare state has its victims...
Harvardman Bartley's stand against the religious dogmatism of President Nathan Pusey [April 14] and his band of idealists is heroic. Better one humanist steadily working to ameliorate the evils that afflict mankind than 100 men of religion insisting that each has a monoply on the truth...
...Wind Bag? Bartley would return to President Eliot's "minimum" faith of "love and service to one's neighbor" and war against "the evils which afflict humanity." These tenets he would buttress with President Emeritus James B. Conant's basic answer to the challenge of the Soviet or fascist view of life-a faith in a "wide diversity of beliefs and the tolerance of this diversity...
Similar troubles afflict Professor Arthur Schlesinger. Yet he has succeeded in getting an outrigger placed on the lectern to keep his briefcase from slipping off. The Schlesinger case, however, only exemplifies the initiative required of a professor when he wants the University to provide him with basic needs. Professors Bate, Harbage, and Demos are similarly afflicted, but more passive...
...continents, Rimanelli chose an apt title for his book from a text that he attributes to an 18th century merchant: "These people of the South have upon them the mark of original sin, a curse of Satanas. Whence poverty, invasions, the Bourbons, Jesuits, cholera and all the ills that afflict the spirit and the flesh. And then you ask me: Why do they leave? Are they not content here? I tell you: No. And no government-as distinguished from Christ -can ever redeem them...