Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Payments. The traditional system of paying the doctor and the hospital is breaking down, said the commission, because the costs and complexities of medical care are increasing all the time. The solution proposed: prepayment through voluntary insurance plans. Many of those now operating are all right as far as they go, the commission believes, but they cover only about 15% of bills for medical care. They must, it believes, be extended to cover doctors' services both at home and in the office, and to cover some nursing services, dentistry for children, and costly drugs and appliances...
...blocked some all-inclusive insurance plans that consumers want. And in several states there is a ban on plans sponsored by consumers. . But the biggest obstacle to the growth of insurance plans is inability to pay. The main groups which the commission lists as unable to buy prepaid medical care are: those on relief, the blind, the aged, dependent children, the growing numbers now living largely on social security benefits, and those eking out a marginal living on small incomes. To provide for all these, the commission proposes...
Much of the frustration begins at home. No soldier is long in Korea before he comes to share the general conviction that Americans at home are sick of the war and don't care how it ends or what happens to the men waging it. A visitor recently hazarded a guess that the American public was not so much sick of the war itself as sick of stalemate. A regimental chaplain who heard this remark said in answer: "If I could believe that, and could say it to these men with real conviction, it would do wonders...
Purity with Popcorn. Writes Critic Kerr: "The Church in this country has . . . seemed to say, 'I don't care what the quality of the art work is, so long as its content is innocuous, or perhaps favorably disposed in our direction . . .' A film featuring a saint is a film of majestic technical excellence. A film showing a nun driving a jeep is a superbly made comedy. A film embracing a jolly priest, a self-sacrificing Catholic mother and an anti-Communist message must be defended in the diocesan press from those irresponsible esthetes . . . who have...
Every poet runs the risk of being misunderstood; and there are many readers who do not care to make the effort to understand Eliot. But he is never willfully obscure, though his poems are compact of literary allusions, many of which will escape the thinly read. But no reasonably well-educated and sensitive reader can escape the poems' impact and meaning. In The Complete Poems the course he has run becomes clear. It began with satire that expressed something close to contempt for his fellow men. But Eliot survived and surpassed satire. His maturer poems are religious, culminating...