Word: careful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fundamental, though unrecognized, differences between the proponents and opponents of compulsory health insurance. The social reformers see only the inequalities and the poor distribution in the present system, but ignore the question of quality, and in fact do not have the necessary training to understand what quality medical care really means. The doctors, on the other hand, are primarily interested in quality, and are extremely cognizant of this aspect of medicine, while they have ignored the maldistribution of the present system until forced into action by those outside the profession. If both sides can only recognize their faults and learn...
...panel implied, was not so much in frankly technical schools, which for good or ill are indispensable to 20th Century life, as in "liberal" colleges whose curricula have been invaded by petty specializations of all sorts. Said one speaker: "The modern university catalogue, with courses in everything from prenatal care to funeral directing, looks like a Sears, Roebuck catalogue." Sir Richard Livingstone, president of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, summed up: "To know one's age, and nothing else, is useless. We must be able to criticize and judge it ... Otherwise we risk being captives...
...know we have accomplished something." Surgeon Meany is more optimistic about a lasting happy ending: "John was an apt case for psychological surgery. His troubles started between the ages of twelve and 15, when he passed the point of childhood anonymity, before which kids don't care much about appearances. He's holding a job and feels like a part of society...
Dean Keppel of the Education School, announcing the appointments, explained that the eventual goal of the new project is to help schools understand the needs, resources, and ideals, of the children placed in their care...
...result is something very like an ecstatic vision. Readers who believe that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in most contemporary philosophy may agree with Reader W. H. Auden: "I think he's an uncertain craftsman, but I don't care...