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...public, tirelessly hoping for a panacea, suffers an emotional letdown as each new wonder drug in turn proves to have its limitations. Cortisone, which was hailed at first (by laymen) as the cure for arthritis, is the latest exciting disappointment. Since the first chorus of enthusiasm, doctors have learned to handle cortisone warily. It cannot be given to any patients for more than a few weeks or months without the risk of causing other disorders. It will be years before the medical profession knows just how cortisone can best be used. But Merckmen know that cortisone, like its predecessors...
...Great Books discussion groups enthusiast, I have known and admired Mortimer Adler for years, but I little suspected the amazing contribution he is and has been making to the improvement of mankind until I read your article . . . Pragmatism has never been or intended to be the philosophical panacea for the world's ills and weaknesses. Peirce and James never so intended it. Nor Dewey, as far as that goes. At least not during his most creative period. In its proper philosophical fields-politics, education, sociology-pragmatism served (and is still serving) a useful purpose...
...thinking, says Kunz, some general pattern may come, and Kunz's scholars are looking for that pattern not only in N.Y.U.'s star-studded course, but in allied research projects on campuses throughout the nation. The foundation's scholars do not expect to find a quick panacea for a splintered world. But in years to come, they hope, there may emerge a new universal system, aided and abetted by what science has discovered about the laws of nature. Education's task, says Kunz, is to determine what the basic laws of nature are, and then make...
Cambridge's League of Women Voters started thumping for adoption of Plan E in 1935 with a campaign for proportional representation. After a five year battle the State Legislature passed Plan E and other cities besides Cambridge voted to use it. They thought it would be a political panacea, but it wasn't. Lowell tried it, but Lowell did not improve. Waltham got a Plan E city manager, but the boodle boys and professional politicians who controlled the city council then voted the manager out of office, and put one of their men in his place...
Hansen's first love has always been teaching; most of his work in the government was advisory and he had little direct influence. In 1940, he attended a London conference of economists. Before he appeared, everyone was discussing free trade as the panacea for all world problems. Hansen introduced the idea of international cooperation to promote stability and full employment. This idea was taken up by others and ultimately led to the European Payments Union...