Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dr. Weisskopf believes that the growing isolation of U.S. scientists is serious. "The development of science is based on cross-fertilization of ideas and informal discussion between scientists. The reading of manuscripts and papers is of very little help. The main ideas are transmitted by personal contact . . . For each scientist...
Striking the Heart. The report's most original, provocative idea was a separate proposal by C.I.O. United Steelworker Chief David McDonald, who had worked closely with Randall and had balanced the voices of economic isolation with statesmanlike vision. To pave the way for drastic tariff cuts, McDonald would set...
¶Most acne sufferers waste their time and money looking for magical skin nostrums. The University of Virginia's Dr. Clayton E. Wheeler, writing in the current G.P., the magazine of the American Academy of General Practice, offers simpier advice: use ordinary toilet soap. Only in severe cases of...
Across West Germany, tireless, graven-faced Konrad Adenauer campaigned bluntly on the issue of United Europe. His main opponents, the Socialists, bluntly campaigned against it. Germans had a clear-cut choice. "Our country," said Adenauer, "is the point of tension between two world blocs . . . Long ago I made a great...
Happily, while the old hands were reworking old formulas, the year also saw a succession of unusually good first novels. Ovid Williams Pierce in The Plantation and Jefferson Young in A Good Man wrote stories about life in the South that were distinguished by grace, dignity and good writing. George...