Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would ask Freudians to throw out their bootleg philosophy and theology and provide themselves with some properly aged nutriment. . . . Freudians need to recognize frankly that to prescribe for the education or re-education of anyone, a philosophy, a Weltanschauung, is necessary. . . . They would find that [Catholicism] . . . has much to recommend it. They would find a Weltanschauung elaborated by many generations of contributors who have produced a very thorough analysis of the end of man; namely, the purpose and goal of human life...
Harry Truman had thus provided himself with two campaign lines for 1948. Either could be used, depending on the political weather. If the world situation is sunny next January, Harry Truman can recommend his own tax-cut measure and get the credit for it in an election year. His crisis line could be taken as a tip that Harry Truman is also ready for dirty weather, prepared to treat 1948 as a short-of-war year, a time to face up to the threat of World War III and no time to change White House horses in midstream...
...made a substrata survey of fields where there was no protective covering, discovered that all earthworm life was snuffed out in a single freezing spell. But in a burlap-covered acre, 995,000 worms survived; 1,610,000 slithered to safety beneath a protective acre of hay. The conservationists recommend a covering of chopped cornstalks or manure, or a quick-growing catch crop, to blanket the worms and tide them through the winter...
...Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt (TIME, Aug. 26). Some 2,000 vagotomies have already been performed in the U.S.; Dr. Dragstedt is credited with 300. Properly done, the operation seems to be generally successful in stopping certain ulcers of the small intestine (Dr. Dragstedt does not recommend it for stomach ulcers...
...section of the frontal lobe, and is supposed to break up the disturbing mental patterns that have unbalanced the patient. In six out of ten cases lobotomy seems to be successful. But one patient in ten is relaxed too much by the operation; three in ten remain tense. Psychiatrists recommend the operation only for otherwise incurable psychotics. But at the chief U.S. lobotomy centers-George Washington University Hospital, Lahey Clinic, Boston Psychopathic-surgeons are being swamped by demands for lobotomy by alcoholics, criminals, frustrated businessmen, unhappy housewives and people who are just nervous...