Word: modern
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time will write a syndicated daily column and two monthly columns, and hold down teaching posts at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois medical schools. Somehow, Dr. Fishbein also expects to have time for a lecture tour and for work on a layman's guide to modern psychiatry...
...modern theory of a "colon corrective" is expounded by the Mayo Clinic's Dr. J. Arnold Bargen in the current Gastroenterology. Dr. Bargen recommends methylcellulose, which will correct either constipation or diarrhea. It can also do much, he says, to repair the harm done by laxative chemicals. Dr. Bargen concedes that "constipation is probably the most common of all physical complaints." In modern smooth diets, often deficient in fruits and vegetables, most food is absorbed in the small intestine and not enough bulk reaches the colon to cause automatic muscle contraction (peristalsis). The thing to do, says Dr. Bargen...
Theologian Brunner tells sociologists that the dehumanized quality of modern life is not the fault of technics (mass production, high-speed communications, etc.), but is to be blamed on the secularized, un-Christian men who put technics to work. Here, says Brunner, the Christian church has woefully let men down: "Is it not shameful for the Christian society that Confucian China was capable of suppressing the military use of gunpowder, while the Christian Church could not prevent . . . the development of a war machinery incomparably more dreadful...
...praised the Roman Catholic Church for resistance to Communism, the Times writer questioned whether the Catholic "machinery of ecclesiastical government ... is at the present time perfectly adjusted to Christianity's universal mission. Having no 20th Century Aquinas, the Roman Church sometimes appears intellectually ill at ease in the modern world...
...rigid camera, there is nothing static about the movie. Berle's heavy cavortings energize the screen like a buffalo stampede. The fact that his comedy is so desperately anxious to please and so hit-or-miss in its shotgun methods adds a human element that is rare in modern-day comedy...