Word: indifferentism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Caution. This week the market was up again in the first day of trading. But there are still plenty of Calamity Janes on the Street. Brilliant, bespectacled Gerald M. Loeb, E. F. Hutton partner, reflecting the still-prevalent pessimism, said: "I am bullish for the near term and rather indifferent...
Evidence of Things Seen. Dr. Underwood agrees that Christianizing Korea has been a slow task. Of the country's 23,000,000 people only some 500,000 are Christians. Koreans seem indifferent to religion. Buddhism has died out. Some educated people have embraced Confucianism, which Dr. Underwood considers "hardly...
Salter's experiments have produced amazing results. He trained patients to anesthetize themselves by autohypnosis; they jabbed needles into their arms without feeling it and, by means of posthypnotic suggestion, remained indifferent to the pain even after they "awoke." Salter also conditioned patients to deafness to all sounds but...
Though this two-year supply is big enough to free the U.S. of its present dependence on Bolivia, Washington is not indifferent to Bolivian tin. The prevailing WPB view is that the U.S. should actually build up a stockpile of as much as four years' supply.
Actually, the core of the Foreign Policy Association report was this definition of the Pope's role in modern world affairs: "The view that the Pope is at heart a fascist and wishes to see the triumph of modern dictatorships . . . proves to be without foundation in fact. At the...