Word: diagnostician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stone-turning in Europe's art libraries, last week turned in a thesis on the maimed, ailing creatures of the great, earthy 16th century painter, Pieter Bruegel the Elder. Torrilhon's hypothesis: in painting after painting, Bruegel reproduced the maladies of his Low Country peasants with a diagnostician's keen...
Donegan's coals-to-Newcastle versions of U.S. folk songs skiffled squeals out of the teenagers, but, according to a Raleigh, N.C. diagnostician, their yelping "has a spasmodic quality compared to the sustained ecstasy Elvis seems to inspire...
Like Oscar Wilde's strong-minded dowager, Lady Bracknell, Madame de Sévigné held that "health is the primary duty of life." She was her daughter's full-time amateur diagnostician, strongly opposed to bloodletting, but an advocate of "viper soup," i.e., snake consomme. Often Madame de Sévigné sounds rather like a faded copy of "Versailles Confidential." ("At one fell stroke the other day, the Queen lost 20,000 crowns and missed hearing Mass.") Letter-Writer De Sévigné is more fun when she is consciously making her own mots...
Huddled deep in their paper-cluttered examining rooms, the pundits of the press, those professional diagnosticians of the body politic, scrutinized the big, double-barreled question: Will and should Ike run? The President's words at Key West were examined like smears beneath a microscope. The circuitous comments and no comments of his close associates, even the guesses of fellow journalists, were treated as seriously as lab reports. But the diagnosis was so tricky that each diagnostician found himself in the end relying on his own instincts, usually curved to his own political bent...
...same soul-searching spirit, Dwight Eisenhower decided to get a new fever chart and some suggested therapy for the Federal Government. To do the job he called in an expert diagnostician last week, and revived the old Hoover Commission on government reorganization. Summoned to Washington once more, Old Diagnostician Herbert Hoover, 78, was willing, if-not pleased. "I took this job against my better judgment," he told reporters. "I'm back here from the Bohemian Grove [a private camp in California], where I was having a good time." To assist Hoover on' the twelve-man commission, the President...