Word: ratner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bluntest words to the medicos came from Dr. Herbert Ratner, head of the Student Health Service at Loyola University School of Medicine. Dr. Ratner, a Jew converted to Roman Catholicism nine years ago, accused modern medical schools of sinking to a "veterinarian level by studying man as if he were a horse instead of a human being with a spirit . . . We see nature as violated, when modern man as the result of medical propaganda goes through life fearing death [and] ends up as a vitamin-taking, antacid-consuming, barbiturate-sedated, aspirin-alleviated, weed-habituated, benzedrine-stimulated, psychosomatically-diseased, surgically-despoiled...
Shame on Radioman Ratner. . . . Does radio aspire no higher than the "judgment of the majority of adult Americans?" No wonder I enjoyed it much more when I was in high school...
...Ratner read the Preamble of the Constitution once more and get the dollar sign out of his eyes if he wants to see the true image of the American People...
...Ratner blames our educational system for "The People's Taste." Can any business which is beamed directly at the small fry for two hours of blood, thunder and box tops every weekday afternoon disclaim its role in our educational system...
Andrei Vishinsky, at his nastiest, never insulted us as did Mr. Ratner with the bland pronouncement that "radio's made in the image of the American people," whose intellectual horizons are bounded by "comic books, Betty Grable . . . broad comedy and simple drama...