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...symptom of the "awakened interest" in religion, said Bennett, is the attendance at religious services. Each chaplain in Korea has an average of 1,500 men a month at services, an average which compares favorably with a clergyman's listeners back home. Equally significant, General Bennett believes, is the record of G.I. generosity and compassion. Examples...
...tries, for instance, to get a court ruling on segregation in Pullmans instead of trying to "educate" millions of individual Pullman passengers. Today's Negro leader does not want to be known as a firebrand; the compliment he prizes most is to be called "a good tactician." One symptom of this change is the fact that Booker T. Washington, a superb tactician whom most Negro leaders in the '20s and '30s denounced as an "Uncle Tom," is being rediscovered by Negroes as a great...
...second, but they find it virtually impossible. Yet more & more Negroes are impatient with spirituals and the blues (including the literary form of the blues, also known as the novel of protest). Many intelligent Negroes are plainly eager to stop looking at every problem through colored glasses. One interesting symptom: Negroes used to have a kind of secret slang? which, as one Negro writer puts it, was "like a tattoo on your wrist"; it has now all but disappeared. Says Negro Photographer Gordon Parks: "There is this pressure to make good for your whole people. If you fail, they give...
...Levin says: "In the motor centers of the angry parent there is a struggle. There are excitations which are about to express themselves in an act of aggression. But there also are inhibitions, for the parent feels guilty and wants to restrain himself." Cataplexy, says Dr. Levin, is a symptom of narcolepsy (involuntary sleep). Cataplexy may occur when a man has an aggressive impulse which, because of guilt, he tries (or feels he should try) to suppress. Or he may actually fall asleep. Dr. Levin cites the example of the soldier who almost falls asleep when under enemy fire...
...symptom of the atomic age, the $4,200,000 Argonne Cancer Research Hospital was opened in Chicago. Built with AEC funds, it will use all kinds of radiation, including giant X-ray machines and radioisotopes such as cobalt-60, to study cancer. Of its eight floors, two are below ground, only two are for patients (56 beds). Every employee must wear a badge that registers exposure to radiation...