Word: meaningfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The trouble with Communism, as many a disgruntled Polish diner-out can testify, may be studied at close range in any state-run restaurant. When signaled, a Polish waiter turns his back. When plucked by the sleeve as he saunters by, the waiter snaps, "Kolega," meaning it is not his...
But these words would have had little meaning for John Reed. As poet, war correspondent, Communist, and Harvardman, John Reed saw life as one Big Game. You could lose the game, but it wasn't worth dying for. Life was too exciting.
With the addition of such refinements as arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries) and hypertension (high blood pressure), medicine remained in general agreement with Hippocrates until this century. The disorders so often seen in the elderly and aging were dubbed "degenerative," or "the diseases of old age," with the emphasis on...
"We are in a period in which people feel themselves searching for a meaning to existence," Tillich said. Because of a feeling of degeneration and emptiness, "people are looking for a scapegoat, and it has always been that the group which was different became it."
Far from foreseeing a further increase in leukemia from anything (meaning nuclear power) that has developed in the last 15 years, Epidemiologists Alexander G. Gilliam and William A. Walter declare in Public Health Reports: present trends "provide no support whatsoever" for such a pessimistic view. On the contrary, they say...