Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington. Before the Reds began their peace offensive, the Eisenhower Administration was striving with might & main to cut defense expenditures without weakening the quality of defense. Treasury Secretary Humphrey, other advisers and Ike himself feel strongly that the present defense cost strains the peacetime economy and might produce deep-seated weakness if long continued...
...Deep in trouble, Juan Perón fenced nervously last week with his own army and his own labor movement-and nothing less than his political survival appeared to be at stake...
...From the Mayo Clinic came a comprehensive report of elaborate investigations there by a distinguished team, one of whose stars is British-born Physiologist Reginald G. Bickford. The Mayo workers have placed electrodes deep in the brains of 13 patients at Rochester (Minn.) State Hospital to study schizophrenia, epilepsy and related seizures and brain tumors, always as a means of deciding exactly what surgery will be best. They have found that the deep brain waves make it possible to locate a tumor more precisely than ever before, and also to spot the damaged region which is causing epilepsy. These...
Mary Magdalene, writes Bruckberger, symbolized the Christian baptism of Greek philosophy. The sensual paganism of the Greeks, he contends, was really "a deep homesickness for the first Paradise, for its innocence, for its freedom of behavior." The search for wisdom was one expression of this. Magdalene, the sinner, made the great discovery that Paradise and wisdom could be found only through God's love and forgiveness...
Toward the end, the violence of language and action becomes somewhat wearisome. But the book is redeemed by Novelist Molaine's deep sense of fraternity with the poor wretches about whom he writes, his admiration for that dim, human feeling which keeps Old Max and Coselli together in a brotherly embrace even as they surrender to their manias, "one barking, the other whinnying, one a dog, the other a horse." And the wild, rhetorical prayer that Bébert casts up in his misery also speaks for Novelist Molaine: "Father here we are in the ooze, inert as fishes...