Word: originality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most comprehensive collection of information. There Gibbon and Macaulay did their historical research, Boswell perfected the technique of biography, Carlyle studied the intricacies of the French Revolution (and complained of "my museum headache"). Young Charles Dickens came to study, Darwin to solidify his ideas for On the Origin of Species. Karl Marx gathered the wool which went into Das Kapital, most of which he wrote in the great, quiet, dome-capped Reading Room...
With few exceptions, Payne Whitney's patients are depressed, anxious and tense. Many have complaints such as peptic ulcers, migraine, asthma, colitis, or skin disorders of psychosomatic origin. Some are alcoholics, a few are narcotic addicts, many have precipitated their admission to the hospital by attempting or threatening suicide. Broadly, such cases are classed as neuroses and personality disorders; some are psychoses. However, less importance is attached to the label than to individualized treatment for the illness...
...leading authority on the subject, seems to favor, tentatively, the theory that the cosmic ray particles were shot out of stars at moderate speed and were gradually accelerated by magnetic fields in space. But he is by no means sure. "At present," he says, "no hypothesis about the origin of cosmic rays is unequivocally supported by theory or experiment...
...meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Boulder, Colo., Atom-Smasher Enrico Fermi speculated on the origin of cosmic rays. The high-speed cosmic particles, packed with destructive energy and dangerous for tomorrow's rocketeers, may have wandered into the earth's galaxy from the far reaches of space, said Dr. Fermi. Geologic ages ago, they drifted into the weak, galactic magnetic field. And weak though that field is, it has had millions of years to kick the particles up to a dangerous speed. Space travelers will brave them at their peril...
...Paris, after seeing Rousseau's house, they discussed his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men. In London, where they were scheduled to see the Old Vic perform Hamlet, they found that the Old Vic had just closed for the month. They "did" Hamlet anyway in their hotel, and somewhere along the line squeezed in Canterbury Cathedral and a lecture on Chaucer. Finally, last week, they groggily got ready to come home. What had they learned? "Tell you the truth," said one traveler, "you get so that you see everything in half a daze...