Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...couldn't pull off a deal like that in any other country. Americans are uniquely prone to isolate emotion from life, and so cut off it inevitably turns to cheap sentimentality. The treatment of mothers is one indication of the general American attitude toward women; the plight of the wife ("the little woman") is well enough known and horrible. And so far she is Day-less. As for mothers, their main trouble is usually that they have too much to do in the early years and not enough later on. The plight of the American woman whose children...
...treatment that Dr. Condon got from the Thomas Committee made nearly all atomic scientists hopping mad. They objected particularly to the Committee's habit of "trying" cases in the newspapers without giving the victim a chance to defend himself. Many wrote long, violent replies to the questionnaire, predicting that such irresponsible attacks would cause the Government to lose its' best scientific talent. Seventy-five percent of the scientists questioned stated that the Condon affair had made them more reluctant to go into Government service. It has made 12% of them "decide to decline any such offer...
Physicians have failed to find a satisfactory way of permanently curing peptic (stomach) ulcers, said the University of California's Theodore Althausen. The standard treatment (bland diet) temporarily cures 90% of the cases; but 10% to 36% develop ulcers again within six months after the "cure," from 46% to 93% within five years...
Coincident with election year, Hollywood has come up with a time-honored favorite son. And so long as Frank Capra sticks to the original Crouse and Lindsey stage play, his treatment is entertaining. The story of the airplane builder who runs for president and discovers that "he must approve everything except sin" has been filmed true to script. Spencer Tracy blusters sufficiently for a man who jumps into politics over his neck and gradually discovers that handing out golden platitudes on silver platters is a tricky business. He winces effectively as his managers tell him that people are nice...
...students in English A-1, Ciardi is just about the perfect writing coach. Affable, sincerely interested, seldom contesting his students' aims but dealing with their methods and treatment, Ciardi's criticism of the short stories that make up the bulk of the courses is often a formulation of the writer's own vague misgivings, and hardly ever clashes with the writer's own standards and opinions. Ciardi tries to steer his students down the middle road. Personal standards are indispensible; but on the other hand, the "purpose of writing is to be read" and prose must be communicative...