Word: formulaic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having handed the Congress his prescription for quieting the flutterings of the U.S. economy (TIME, July 18), President Truman was now trying to explain the formula so that the patient itself could understand it. All the country really needed, Harry Truman believed, was the proper dosage of public works, some other financial therapy from Washington (the Fair Deal's economic and social legislation) and the close cooperation of business, labor, agriculture and government...
Fact-Finding Formula. As the hours ticked by, big blast and open-hearth furnaces began shutting down. Coke ovens were banked. But under the combined pressure of the White House, public opinion and the dark prospect of a full shutdown, some of the smaller steelmakers capitulated. Then Bethlehem and Republic, junior partners in steel's Big Three, followed suit...
Vincent Sheean, veteran foreign correspondent, sat in Vermont in the summer of 1947 and pored over Marx, Freud and Einstein with the earnestness of a junior getting up a term paper. His purpose, says Sheean, was to arrive at a formula that would explain away the appearance of God or destiny that had forced itself on his attention in human affairs. After "very bitter suffering," he arrived at this: "The concatenation of the circumstances sometimes, or even quite often, becomes snarled in a way which produces indications of pattern in the incidence of the occurrences...
...previous works of self-revelation (Personal History, Not Peace But a Sword, etc.), such metaphysical posturing will seem familiar. No reporter was ever less contented with bare facts or more portentously absorbed in getting at the groundswell-meaning of things for himself than "Jimmy" Sheean. His 1947 "formula" did not satisfy him long. Lead, Kindly Light is the story of a new conviction that came to take its place: the conviction of an immanent and transcendent God who cannot be explained away. The man who gave him his conviction: India's late great Mahatma Gandhi...
...Formula. In Isleworth, England, Samuel Taylor, 80, gave the secret of his long life: daily with meals, a brew of "stinging nettles, dandelions and fresh green shoots of a may bush...