Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fear, like pain (see below), has its good points. Fear sends the patient scurrying to the doctor to find out what, if anything, is wrong with him. But fear of cancer, especially among women...
Pain, most doctors believe, is a good thing in small doses. It is often the only warning of some invisible internal disorder. But Dr. Angelo Luigi Soresi, onetime professor of surgery at New York's old Homeopathic Medical College and Flower Hospital, disagrees with the vast majority of his colleagues. Pain, he insists, is not a physiological (and therefore ' normal) sensation, but pathological-experienced only after a breakdown somewhere in the nervous system. Pain cannot be normal, Soresi argues, because he does not believe that receptors for pain have been found among the nerve endings...
...like peace but also like to be practical, have quite understandably been worried about troubled U.S.Soviet relations. The American Friends' Service Committee, which shared the 1947 Nobel Peace Prize with its British counterpart, earnestly believes that most worldly problems can be solved by intelligent effort, backed up by good faith...
...Quaker plan urged that the U.S. show its good intentions by 1) promoting East-West trade and ending "economic warfare," 2) working for a unified "neutral" Germany, and 3) proposing an agreement to put all atomic bomb stockpiles under United Nations seal. If carried out, this plan "would increase the likelihood of the Soviet Union's making the desired changes on its side...
...Quakers feel that by making a reality of good will among men, they can overcome even the most brutally "realistic" aspects of Communist doctrine. They concede that "a final violent conflict between the Soviet and the capitalist worlds is a basic article of faith of Russian Communism." Even so, the Quakers fondly hope that "the flexible nature of Russian Communism and the existence of certain precedents make even a fundamental change in attitude toward the non-Communist world not entirely beyond the range of possibility...