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...Democratic chairman who went to Miami Beach as a delegate-at-large: "I came through politics and worked my way up. We didn't do it overnight. These kids in Miami will be there for a lark, and that'll be the end of it." Beyond the anguish of power lost, however, many pros contend that they still know best what is good for the party and the country-and McGovern is not it. Or so it seemed to them before Miami. Later, with the campaign ahead and Nixon as the common enemy, some measure of party unity...
...intelligence. As writer, teacher and editor, he has for the past 25 years made essential contributions to the understanding of modern art in America. "It's my way of being social, rather than going to cocktail parties," he says. "It's also an excellent relief from the anguish of painting-an attempt to regain my social equilibrium and to give back to society something of what it has so generously given me: education, respect, dignity, artistic freedom." Thus he is the opposite of the cliché that stuck to Abstract Expressionism-the artist as roaring boy, trapped...
...with diets. But no one considers pills a long-term answer because of side effects and the chance of addiction. Many extremely obese people eat heavily because of emotional problems. For these patients, psychotherapy can provide clues about the basic causes of the trouble and sometimes helps ease the anguish of kicking gluttony. The key element is usually motivation. Group sessions on the style of Alcoholics Anonymous benefit some people more than orthodox medical approaches...
...financial return, then goes on to suggest the establishment of several more committees plus a "Faculty for the Study of Social Problems," an idea whose time will never come. Over the past year, President Bok and the Corporation have issued and propagated several documents on Harvard investments, revealing escalating anguish but no consistent policy, not even that of expediency...
Despite his denial, a terminal patient nearly always knows the truth. Discouraging him from talking about it puts him under great strain. Even when his knowledge is unconscious, it is generally so close to the surface that the struggle to suppress it only compounds his anguish. When the struggle ends, the patient is "fortified, not undermined," Weisman says. He cites the case of a patient close to death who asked a hospital social worker how to find a nurse to look after her "when she went home." Because the patient had earlier talked freely about her death and her fear...