Word: cosmos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This treatment works only on a soldier whose ego is still pretty much in command of his cosmos. About 60% of the selected cases on which the Army uses it are improved enough to return to battle. Colonel Grinker admits the necessity of this slapdash technique, but he thinks that speed is the only thing in its favor. He says it is hard to tell whether the returned troops are effective in combat, that the end result in many cases of repressed anxiety will be a mental problem after the war, if not before...
...chain stores into thousands of small shops). He hoped for a "League of Little People." He shuddered at talk of an expanding universe-"more and more infinite corridors of space lit by ghastly suns and empty of all that was divine." To him the beauty of the cosmos lay in its "poetry of limits...
...York Times last week phoned local psychiatrists for a diagnosis of Harry James's rabid fans. The experts agreed that love of rhythm and the desire to dance are "perfectly healthy." One neurologist, who would not let his name be used, explained: "All of life, all humanity, the cosmos itself, is built upon the beat principle. . . . Its appeal is closely connected with mob hysteria, for you see the same responses in Germany, in the Niirnberg meetings, for example, where the multitudes are swung together under control in a certain direction. One of the secrets of Hitler's power...
...Fedor von Bock's cosmos, the Fatherland remained constantly deathworthy; the Emperor was interchangeable with, successively, Weimar Republicanism, Hindenburg, the Führer. He was completely unpolitical: he never plotted, was never purged...
Died. Dr. Emanuel Lasker, 72, German-born mathematician, world's chess champion from 1894 to 1921, author (The Philosophy of the Unattainable, Cosmos Under the Aspect of Comprehension); of uremic poisoning; in Manhattan...