Word: depressionitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rebellious Years. Despite a proper Tory preparation, Macmillan spent the first half of his 30 years in politics in rebellion and dissent. In Depression years he attacked old-fashioned Tory economics, urging a society that would be "neither jungle nor beehive." He once attacked the whole government bench as "a...
Most Canadians approved the decision for deficit financing, and some even thought that Harris should have gone farther, making deeper tax cuts even if the deficit ran up as high as $500 million. Harris' confident answer was that pump-priming on that scale is unnecessary. Although winter unemployment has...
Dark Night of the Soul. The life of contemplation has its occupational diseases. Sisters sometimes suffer shattering doubts about the genuineness of their vocation, or an onslaught of "scrupulosity"-obsession with insignificant imperfections that begin to loom like mortal sins. Most agonizing of all is spiritual dryness, analyzed by St...
Manic Depression. Health hints were scattered throughout the week in TV's typical buckshot fashion. Omnibus showed the staccato heartbeat of a pretty girl suddenly confronted by a spider, moments later probably scared more viewers than it enlightened with a closeup film sequence of a delicate heart operation. Medic...
Through the '20s and '30s, no fewer than 45 new business machines appeared under the new IBM label. While other companies cut payrolls through the Depression, Watson refused to lay off men. IBM stored away what it could not sell, against better days. In 1933 Watson bought up...