Word: causalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...different. The dentist's causal greeting, his coy smile at the nurse who stood nearby, and his jaunty, almost arrogant manner took the patient surprise. He hadn't prepared himself for this. He started at the dentist's body, strangely supple and relaxed, felt his won body small and weak, and then saw the dentist reaching for the huge, infernal, hated, death-inferring hypodermic needle that the nurse held out to him. The patient knew what was different this time. He was afraid...
...claim to indemnification for loss of life may be asserted if the persecutes has been deliberately or frivolously killed or driven to his death. It shall be sufficient if there is a probable causal nexus between death and persecution...
...defense, Stanton's telegram pointed out that social scientists have not established that there is a "causal relationship between the fictional portrayal of violence in the mass media and any increase of actual violence in American life." But that may be beside the point. What seems to disturb the majority of the nation's 180 million viewers is not the conclusions of sociologists, but the fact that the horrors of war, assassinations and riots are real enough; why bludgeon TV audiences with variations on violence...
Seltzer added that a close study of the evidence in new reports does not make it any clearer that there is a causal connection between cigarette smoking and coronary heart disease...
...Director of the Demilitarization Study of the Fund for the Republic. To suggest, as he does, that progress towards disarmament merely awaits a new voice describing the international situation in non-agressive language is to ignore all the technical problems posed by multilateral disarmament. He fails to establish any causal relationship between a demilitarized political vocabulary and disarmament...