Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of NATO, dictator-ruled Spain is not. One reason is the long-standing hostility between France and Franco's Madrid. During the Spanish Civil War, France took in 500,000 Republican refugees and even let them set up a government in exile. French Socialists in particular, recalling with distaste Franco's wartime friendship with Hitler and Mussolini, have always resisted friendly relations with Franco...
...does not take "a London particular" to send cough-racked Britons to their beds -or their graves. The tight little island's air is tightly packed with pollutant particles, boosting the bronchitis and chest-disease rate to the world's highest. Last week Dr. Horace Joules (rhymes with rules), of London's Central Middlesex Hospital, painted a Dickensian picture of what a medical nightmare the past winter had been in the city which some Englishmen still call "the Smoke...
...brick dormitories to spend two to five hours per week waiting on table or drying dishes, has outlived its usefulness. Instituted during the Second World War to cut down kitchen expenses, the program was commendable at first as a war-time economy. Unfortunately, the program has recently taken on particular significance in the minds of College officials. The claim today is that Radcliffe students learn to assume personal responsibility through the experience of serving as a part-time waitress...
Time for Treatment. "Overt alcoholism," the last good chance for recovery, spans roughly 5.9 years. The patient becomes a liquor hoarder, buys large quantities, worries whether he has enough to last through some particular crisis. This behavior is followed closely by drinking before breakfast (more than 95% of all alcoholics treated at Shadel Hospital have admitted doing so). The patient insists that he never gets "drunk," which may be true, since a constantly high level of blood alcohol need not impair his actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally...
Fantasy & Fog. As for science, Barzun insists that scientists cannot communicate with each other-the increasing "fantasy" of their symbolic language prohibits communication. But his sharpest nips at contemporary American are in his attack on togetherness. Barzun charges America with "hostility to intellect," of personality "coddling." His particular enemy is the "adjustment curriculum" by which rigorous studies are submerged in a queasy tide of "social" projects and group activity in the hands of "soul probers" who were once teachers...