Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Loves her Truly. Finally, both of them Old and Gray, they Reunite on the Spot of their First Meeting. In order to communicate fully the spirit of the showboat era; it is almost necessary to have such a combination of stuffiness and conventionality. Ravenal is a stereotype of an age that took its stereotypes seriously. Consequently, although the narrative itself lacks vitality, the period it characterizes seeps through, and the dances, costumes, sets, and direction go along with the music to crystallize its quaint elegance...
...psychiatrists at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital diagnosed the patient's trouble as middle age...
Medicine has no cure for middle age, but it has learned to ease the symptoms. The sick salesman was given treatments of testosterone (male hormone). After eight weeks of this simple therapy, he emerged from his emotional slump...
Ordinarily, say the Montreal psychiatrists, there is nothing much wrong with the aging male that hormone treatments will not help. They tried this treatment on 30 patients and in most cases it worked; in more complicated cases, the psychiatrists concluded that middle age may plunge a man into so profound a mental and emotional depression that nothing short of psychiatry or shock treatments will pull...
...ition. Manhattan's Wall Street Journal bought what was said to be the largest magazine ad ever. In a 48-page spread in next week's Advertising Age, the Journal reproduced ads from all business advertisers in its 26 September issues. The cost: $16,800, plus printing and layout cost...