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During World War II it had been popular to say with the geopoliticians that whoever controlled the Eurasian heartland would dominate the rimlands and the rest of the world. The geopolitical fad had passed, but the fact remained-augmented, by Russia's successes in the war and at the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences, to ominous power...
Surgery has become such a fad, some critics observed, that many an operation is now performed in hopes of finding out what ails the patient, or because the surgeon wants practice, or because a patient has a morbid desire to be cut open. According to Foss, a scandalously large number of operators have had little or no special training in surgery...
...group of leading U.S. psychiatrists, headed by Dr. William C. Menninger, has now issued a stern warning against "abuses" of electric shock therapy. The psychiatrists believe that shock treatments have become a fad and are being prescribed recklessly (and ineffectually) as a cure-all for too many different neuroses...
...easier to talk about the Apocalypse and to consult occult books than to admit that one is an abettor of disorder. . . . The Apocalypse is indulged as a fad now in order to avoid undertaking, in the face of the sickness of Europe, measures for public wellbeing. . . . Europe's bad conscience lends itself to playing up the Apocalypse. This is not what the Apocalypse is for . . .1 have no more reason to deny than I have to admit that we may have entered into those convulsions which, according to the Scriptures, precede the end of the intermediary period. What...
...their quarters with my foot drill and instrument box . . . a whole flock of them immediately came running to greet me [with] a come-hither smile full of promise." Later, when the young dentist scaled the betel off the teeth of a native girl in Bangkok, he unwittingly started a fad for gleaming teeth. He was soon swamped with "shy little Siamese ladies" in search of the smile of beauty and the smile of health, who took up so much of his time that he trebled his price...