Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most of Kirchner's painting is a feverish foreboding, and it was natural that it should be so. In 1914, after volunteering for the artillery. Kirchner had a nervous breakdown and was found to be suffering from tuberculosis. From then on, his life became a battle against alcohol, dope, and, in his last years, the Nazis. In 1937 the Nazis removed 639 of his works from German museums; 32 were displayed in the notorious Munich exhibit of "degenerate art." Less than a year later, at the age of 58, Kirchner ended his life by shooting himself...
...have no time for such things as Winter Comps. I must construct ontological systems; I must synthesize ethyl alcohol from hemoglobin; I must proselytize the novels of Jane Austen...
Vacuum Keening. At this point the non-hero always has two anodynes for his despair: 1) alcohol, 2) another woman. Author Wilson generously allows Nathan to sample both. Amy has an adulterous fling of her own after which the following dialogue ensues...
...gamma globulin is given while the disease is incubating, but gamma globulin shots are painful, costly and scarce. The PHS's protective advice: "Wash your hands." Antibiotics have no effect, and once the disease takes root, doctors can do nothing but put their patients to bed, forbid alcohol, treat their symptoms and feed them a nutritious, vitamin-rich diet. In severe cases, ACTH and cortisonelike drugs may help to prevent coma and clear up jaundice...
...many laws and overlapping rules, France relies too much on faith in paper regulations, not enough on enforcement. Cartels that restrict competition are all too blithely tolerated, says the report, recommending U.S.-style restraints on monopoly. There are far too many subsidies supporting inefficient businesses, e.g., in the alcohol, sugar and flour-milling industries. Farms are often too small to reap the harvest of mechanization, and inefficient tenant farmers are kept in business by state grants. The food distribution system is archaic, encouraging low turnover and high profit margins. The report's solution : a telecommunications system to create...