Word: canting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academician that he is. "He seems to act with the sense of knowing best," one commentator remarked, "--a kind of vocation to set an incompetant world to rights." This drive to set the world at rights is perhaps implicit in his Socialist creed, but Gaitskell's interpretation of party cant bears the imprint of a man looking for an up-to-date, intellectually solid synthesis. his own words, defining what he sees as the evils of capitalism, illuminate the original approach of Hugh Gaitskell to socialism. "The three evils of the individualistic system," he once wrote, "are inequality of wealth...
Critic KENNETH TYNAN, also in the Observer-He was without doubt a great writer ... He attempted, and almost pulled off, two mountainous tasks: he cleared the English stage of humbug, and the English mind of cant ... As a demolition expert he has no rivals: and we are being grossly irrelevant if we ask a demolition expert, when his work is done: "But what have you created?" It is like expecting a bulldozer to build the Tower of Pisa; or condemning a bayonet for not being a plough. Shaw's genius was for intellectual slum-clearance, not for town planning...
WHEN NBC decided to add medical news to Dave Garroway's morning television show Today, it discovered that TIME was a ready source of authentic material. For a report on dysautonomia, a little known affliction, a symptom of which is weeping without tears, NBC used Medicine Editor Gilbert Cant's story (TIME, June 7, 1954) for script background. Later Today planned to review the treatment of mental ills with new drugs and learned the authoritative work was a booklet by Cant, based on the story Pills for the Mind (TIME, March...
After that the logical move was to get Cant himself on the show. Now TIME'S medicine editor is appearing each Thursday morning on Garroway's nationwide program. Last week Cant reported on the drug treatment of tuberculosis. His subject this week: the discovery of an antidote against nerve gases (see MEDICINE...
...have by reading TIME's MEDICINE section." Last week at the American Medical Association convention in Atlantic City, many doctors buttonholed and commended the man most responsible for TIME's continued accurate coverage of Dr. Jonas E. Salk's vaccine. That man is Gilbert Cant, 45, TIME's MEDICINE editor for the past six years, a TIME writer and correspondent for five years before that. Writing the cover story on Dr. Salk (March 29, 1954) gave British-born Editor Cant a searching interest in the Salk vaccine. In recent months, he has been reporting week...