Word: jeremiad
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors have rationalized that, although the sulfas and antibiotics let some resistant microbes slip by, they save so many lives that their occasional failures stand out more. The "increase" in such cases, they argue, is only relative, not real. Last week Dr. Finland attacked this defense. In his saddest jeremiad yet, he asserted that the antimicrobial drugs have caused an actual increase in severe infections and deaths from some hitherto harmless or uncommon germs...
...once-thriving editions in industrial Turin and Genoa, announced that its sole surviving regional edition in Milan will now serve all three cities-a feat comparable to making over a Pittsburgh daily for readers in Philadelphia and Baltimore. Beyond that, the paper was reduced to running a Page One jeremiad by Party Boss Palmiro Togliatti, imploring the faithful to dig deep in their pockets to save L'Unità from "extermination...
Rourke, onetime president of the American Hospital Association and now a hospital consultant in New Rochelle, N.Y., based his jeremiad on a set of figures from the joint commission (representing such groups as the A.H.A. and A.M.A.) on accreditation: of 1,385 hospitals in the U.S. and Canada inspected last year, one-third failed to pass. That is, by commission standards, the medical staff may have been inadequately trained, or possibly the hospitals showed high death rates from operations, poor anesthesia departments, high maternal mortality, too few or ill-trained nurses, sloppy records, or poor physical plants...
Professor Krutch's jeremiad concerning the problem of epistemology facing our age can be stated more succinctly and bluntly as follows...