Word: ferments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ferment. In increasing numbers, the Sunday press is providing a more intelligent re-examination of what happened in the previous week. Since May 1960, the New York Sunday News has devoted two pages to a retrospective look at the week entitled "What in the World!" The Houston Chronicle has added a collection of second thoughts on the news called "Outlook-A Page to Help You Think...
...their doctors salaries or shares, and assign patients to qualified specialists. A.M.A. fought group plans for years; the surrender was a belated recognition by A.M.A.'s scientific element that these systems can and do give good results. Out of such challenges and accommodations comes 1961's ferment of change in the relation between doctors and patients...
...group practice. Communities, counties and corporations are hard at work all over the U.S. spreading such plans, and the recent benison of the A.M.A. is certain to allay the objections of many balky doctors. Therein lies the significance of Leonard Larson, a man who can look at all the ferment calmly...
...time is one of ferment and potential rebirth. This is so precisely because it is a time full of chaos ... It was only natural that Sigmund Freud should at the beginning of his career have thought of the irrational aspects of-the human personality as chaotic and potentially dangerous powers ... It did not occur to him that chaos in itself may represent a very positive and fertile current of life. For the people of the Old Testament, especially in the creation story, the question was not: 'Why is there chaos?' but rather: 'Why is there order?' For them, order...
Anxious Intellectuals. This kind of ever-contradictory ferment gives the U.S. an exciting intellectual life, but it also makes anxious intellectuals. The intellectuals, in turn, carry their anxiety to the rest of the country through the immensely fast popularization of new ideas. U.S. intellectuals are forever complaining that no one pays attention to their opinions. This is patently untrue: very likely, they complain merely to cover their own guilt at not being as certain about things as they secretly feel they should be?in short, at not being leaders...