Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact that one phase of its world role was passing and another beginning. In London the Economist expressed the best-intentioned British misgivings: "The charge that does stand, more accusing than ever, is that the Eisenhower Administration, while having a policy towards the world, has consistently lacked policies for particular parts of it. It has had an attitude, but no solutions-a diagnosis, but no remedies ... If the determination now reported from Washington to wrest out of the present smoldering embers a permanent settlement of Middle Eastern frontiers and refugees had been pressed before with wisdom and a consistent resolve...
...succession of patients who all looked and felt ill, had assorted aches and pains, usually with some fever and local swelling or inflammation. The trouble, the professor explained, was that these patients had not yet developed any of the few specific symptoms by which he could pinpoint just what particular disease each suffered from. To the bright-eyed Selye, this was only half the story at best: in his view, all the patients already suffered from a state of "just being sick," which medicine was ignoring. He wanted to know how this came about, and what all its victims...
...present everywhere, according to Selye. He sees it in "the soldier who sustains wounds in battle, the mother who worries about her soldier son, the gambler who watches the races . . . the beggar who suffers from hunger and the glutton who overeats . . . the child who scalds himself-and especially the particular cells of the skin over which he spilled the boiling coffee." So far it would seem that Dr. Selye has discovered only the obvious. But then he takes a bold, imaginative leap: "To understand the mechanism of stress gives physicians a new approach to the treatment of illness...
...individual's success in achieving a new and less stressful way of life, says Selye, lies in self-knowledge-insight into the particular factors that provoke stress in one's own case, from job insecurity to feeling unloved. A man can be drunk with his own hormones, according to Endocrinologist Selye, who adds: "This sort of drunkenness has caused much more harm to society than the other kind* ... In all our actions throughout the day we must consciously look for signs of being keyed up too much-and we must learn to stop in time...
...University has recently been examining, in one from or another, some serious suggestions that Harvard contribute to the Great Life Process. These particular proposals seek neither a total merger with the Radcliffe administration nor an extension of parietal hours. They maintain, instead, that tall oaks from little acorns grow and that Harvard, alone or with other colleges, should drop a little acorn somewhere out West...