Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Politicians of the FLN executive committee are led by 58-year-old Ferhat Abbas, "grand old man" of Algerian politics and a onetime moderate, whose failure to wring concessions from France has turned him into an embittered extremist. His close aide is Dr. Mohammed Lamine-Debaghine, 40, bitterly anti-French...
"A Good Deal." This mood, which once would have seemed so improbable among the young, baffles and disturbs some professors. Says Columbia Professor-Critic Lionel Trilling: "The undergraduate of today is not very much committed to anything; or if he is, they are secret commitments." Since students have had no...
In sharp disagreement was Johns Hopkins University's Dr. Milton Edgerton, 36. He reported that in three years he has operated on 32 women, aged 28 to 38. All were married, and all were emotionally upset by what Dr. Edgerton called "a local anatomical fixation" on their small breasts...
Federal aid to education has been traditionally resisted by the states for two reasons--fear of Federal control and the problem of equitable administration. Direct Depression grants for building schools, however, show that aid need not mean control; and an independent commission for administering the money would minimize the possibility...
The difficulty in obtaining teachers good enough to enable these colleges to gain accreditation will, however, be acute. The low Depression birthrate--disregarding the many discouragements to entering teaching--is enough to insure insufficient teachers to meet the war baby deluge.