Word: scottishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...somehow it was inextricably connected with thwarted love and melancholia. Early 20th century medicine, which sought to explain everything through germs, laughed at the Camille school of diagnosis. But in recent years, physicians have once again begun to see a connection between tuberculosis and emotional factors. Now a hardheaded Scottish physician, David Morris Kissen, practicing among working-class victims in the unromantic setting of Lanark, has reached a diagnosis of the emotional state which predisposes to tuberculosis. It results, he reports in the Scottish Health Bulletin, from an "inordinate need for affection." But this alone is not enough; it requires...
...proud that his grandfather was a Scottish crofter, or tenant farmer (he keeps a picture of the croft on his desk). In 1843 grandfather left his farm on the barren Isle of Arran and walked to London, there founded the famed publishing house, Macmillan & Co. Ltd. Macmillan's mother was an American girl, Helen Belles, from Spencer, Ind.,* who met his father when she, recently widowed, had gone to Paris to study singing and he to study music. Young Harold won scholarships to Eton and Oxford, where he was secretary of the Oxford Union and hailed by the undergraduate...
...vague generality under fire, take the typical example. "Hume brought empiricism to its logical extreme." The question is asked, "Did the philosophical beliefs of Hume represent the spirit of the age in which he lived?" Our hero replies by opening his essay with "David Hume, the great Scottish philosopher, brought empiricism to its logical extreme. If this be the spirit of the age in which he lived, then he was representative of it." This generality expert has already taken his position for the essay. Actually he has not the vaguest idea what Hume really said, or in fact what...
Died. Ruth Draper, 72, who dazzled New York and London audiences with her lavishly peopled monologues for more than 40 years, impersonated a Scottish immigrant, Maine swamp Yankees and rubbernecking American tourists with sympathetic satire; in her sleep, five days after she opened a four-week Broadway engagement; in Manhattan...
...even more dramatic example of widening U.S. impact is bearded, Scottish-born Alan Davie, 35. His discovery of Jackson Pollock in 1948 came as a revelation: "I was amazed to find that I wasn't alone." Davie's recent Manhattan show of his free-form, Druidical abstractions was a near sellout, with eight large paintings snapped up by museums and collectors. Davie's sales in six previous London shows: none...