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DIED. Gilbert Cant, 72, esteemed Lasker Award-winning medicine editor of TIME from 1949 to 1969, author of Male Trouble (1976), on prostate problems, and three books on the Navy in World War II; of a heart attack; in New York City...
...those of us in an age where electronic impressions guide opinion and sentiment more effectively than all else. Hickok's reporting during the Great Depression serves as a positive example of thoughtful reporting not shrill cant...
...talking to the wall in front of them. But gradually, the scene becomes familiar: soon it becomes possible to detect the ultra-polite, unemotional tone of voice that is the trademark of only one profession, and finally, one makes out a phrase here and there and recognizes the cant of Harvard operators...
...this refreshing manual, Schickel manages to avoid every classic bromide. The divorcee is not seen as muggee or neglected saint, older women are consistently praised, and the references to sex are free of cant and prurience: "There are still people in this world who like to think things over, and they often turn out to be very good people indeed ... If she doesn't want to, she doesn't want to. So be a good sport about it, for God's sake...
...seigneurial cant to romanticize work that is truly detestable and destructive to workers. But misery and drudgery are always comparative. Despite the sometimes nostalgic haze around their images, the pre-industrial peasant and the 19th century American farmer did brutish work far harder than the assembly line. The untouchable who sweeps excrement in the streets of Bombay would react with blank incomprehension to the malaise of some $17-an-hour workers on a Chrysler assembly line. The Indian, after all, has passed from "alienation" into a degradation that is almost mystical. In Nicaragua, the average 19-year-old peasant...