Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medicine, thinks Maine, may be on the wrong track in its general approach to alcoholism and insanity. He suggests that doctors might get better results if, instead of allowing a patient to brood about his own madness, they focused his attention on some of the insane behavior of society. In Maine's case, his treatment produced a broad indignation that made him forget his own narrow craving for alcohol...
...ledge in subtenure. Instead glasses our windows have transparent papers, we are always hungry and we feel cold. But the worst is that we haven't home. It would be easy to repair a lodging that is now in rains if we had money enough...
They have, instead, a very tough row to hoe. When only one-eighth of an organization's membership shows up at regular meetings and only a quarter at elections, the implementation of any action program is formidably difficult. The awakening and solidification of the membership must therefore be a primary objective. Before the popular imagination can be captured, the imagination of the people who will lead the movement must be captured. Showmanship in accomplishing this should not be eschewed: well-publicized "big-name" speakers, well-drawn posters or handbills aimed at bringing indifferent members into activity, radio time-almost anything...
...effects of the Senate action may not be immediately evident. The U.N. will remain, but instead of a community of nations it will remain as a trading place for diplomatic hucksters. The peace will remain for one decade or two or three because war cannot be fought by impoverished nations. But unless there is a rebirth of that desire for genuine world government that was born in the war and has died with the peace then America has chosen the safe road to eventual...
...conclusive proof of great popular support has been forthcoming), the passage of this amendment will be of serious significance to the country and its future. Indeed, no matter what the proposed amendment may be, any major revision in the nation's constitution deserves consideration of the most exhaustive kind. Instead, this one is being rushed through state legislatures, predominantly Republican, as it was steamrollered through Congress, in a hush-hush and how-dare-you-oppose-this manner. Besides, the playdown given hearings and discussions of the amendment by most of the nation's press is as much responsible...