Word: ille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deep contempt for the new enemy, instead of assuming a proper attitude of caution and watchful reserve... In reaction to Soviet offers to confer, the U.S. answers with despairing pessimism instead of cautious optimism. When Russia announced her arms cut, Secretary Dulles, a man of few and ill-chosen words, responded that "the obvious explanation" is as a propaganda tactic and a shift of manpower to industry and agriculture.... This kind of narrow pre-judgement of Russia with which the U.S. faces the world can do this country little good. It is perhaps more dangerous than naivete, because it characterizes...
...Nieman Fellows, who will be on leave of absence from their newspapers, are Lewis, former Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and presently a reporter for the Washington Bureau of the New York Times; Harold V. Liston, city editor of the Daily Pantagraph in Bloomington. Ill.; and Robert F. Campbell, editorial writer of the Winston-Salem Journal and Sentinel...
...fact that the tiresome child, the lawbreaker and the unhappy lover now pass through [the doctors'] consulting rooms implies the belief that people in these predicaments are, or may be, ill. The concept of illness expands continually at the expense of the concept of moral failure . . . The significance of this question of who is sick and who is sinful can not be laughed off as 'merely semantic' . . . No verbal tricks with definitions will alter the practical consequences, in our culture, of drawing the boundary between health and illness in one place rather than another...
...conclusion seems inescapable that a large proportion of these people are 'treated' by the doctor just because they are tiresome or unhappy . . . Only by grotesque mental gymnastics can they be made out to be ill in any other sense. In fact, the stealing, bedwetting, bad-tempered children whom, as magistrates, we refer for psychiatric treatment, are diagnosed as sick by their very stealing, bed-wetting and bad temper. But what can we say about the parents of these children, some of whom also consent to receive 'treatment' for themselves? In what sense can they be said...
...Plainly, the distinction between the mentally sick on the one hand and the sinful (or the miserable and the muddled) on the other, is getting shakier and shakier ... Hence the dilemma: either our psychiatrist must be spending his time upon those who are not really ill at all ... or our conception of mental illness must be much too narrow, and needs to be widened to include pretty well everybody who is in trouble of any kind...