Word: poisonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these inoperable cancers and were effective in only a few types of cases. In the last five years, Boston's Dr. Sidney Farber and a team of assistants have been getting encouraging results with new drugs. One of the first to show promise was nitrogen mustard (a deadly poison developed in World War II for chemical warfare). Newer and better, Dr. Farber believes, are the awkwardly named "folk acid antagonists." These, like ACTH and cortisone, are most often effective against the leukemias...
Very much." To decent, secular folk like the Dunns and their friends, this is as unnerving as having poison ivy or termites about the place. Pressing Peter for details, they learn that the vision was rather like a person, that its message was love, and that they must join him at the same hilly spot for a repeat miracle...
...they come, is death to moral progress . . . It is also disastrous to lead [a delinquent] to believe that he is more sinned against than sinning and to imply that strenuous moral effort on his own part is unnecessary. The maxim Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner is poison here...
Progress & Poison. To the psychologist, says Sir Walter, the proper approach to the delinquent is "therapeutic rather than juridical; the offender is to be regarded as a sick man to be healed rather than as a malefactor to be chastised . . . Ultimately then, all praise and blame are irrational." Bernard Shaw put the moral, says Sir Walter, when he once suggested that a man should no more be punished for having an inefficient conscience than for having an inefficient lung...
...rest of the nation. Last year's big hits were "Born Yesterday," "Chapter by the Dozen," and "Sunset Boulevard," all of which had from 10,000 to 15,000 paid admissions during their three-day stands. Musicals go well, but "in the last year war pictures have been poison here--just poison...