Word: battered
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Indeed, on every front, psychiatry seems to be on the defensive. Private groups with names like Alliance for the Mentally Ill are beginning to batter the profession and its hospitals with the same kind of malpractice suits that plague the rest of medicine. Many psychiatrists want to abandon treatment of ordinary, everyday neurotics ("the worried well") to psychologists and the amateur Pop therapists. After all, does it take a hard-won M.D. degree (a prerequisite psychologists do not need) to chat sympathetically and tell a patient you're-much-too-hard-on-yourself? And if psychiatry is a medical treatment...
Though newer sports gained popularity, baseball remained the preference of succeeding generations of writers, including Bernard Malamud, Irwin Shaw, Mark Harris and Philip Roth. The reason seems clear. Baseball is the most solitary of team endeavors. Nobody blocks for the batter or sets picks for the pitcher. A double-play combination may radiate exquisite timing and cooperation, but the process of getting two runners out is still linear, a matter of performing one delicate, discrete act after another. Small wonder that writers, sitting alone and laboriously putting words to gether, respond sympathetically to both putouts and errors. In writing...
...vision of London as the decadent plaything of roving gangs turns macabre as Kubrick overlays Rossini, Beethoven, and Purcell music. Don't expect to leave feeling reassured or satisfied; Kubrick doesn't answer the questions he raises about society's right to curb individual freedoms when the individuals smash, batter and rape. Malcolm MacDowells's sympathetic portrayal of Alex, the sadistic and Beethoven-loving gang leader, knots the questions further. When conventional life becomes sanitized and pointless, who's to say violence is an improper response? Kubrick doesn't endorse nihilism, but he presents it as objectively as possible. Clockwork...
...Napoleon, Hitler had come too far into Russia and reckoned without the Russian cold. The suffering and bravery of Stalingrad in that terrible winter became a new myth of an enduring Soviet Union. The Red Army, under Georgi Zhukov, managed to encircle Paulus' 200,000-man army and batter it into submission. The German surrender on Feb. 2, 1943, was a turning point...
...goals Bob McDonald, reinstated after being benched against Brown, drag bunted the rebound of a John Dunderdale shot in at 11:30 to make it 2-0. Moffett appeared to have gloved Dunder's attempt, but the puck squirted out waist-high and McDonald was positioned perfectly in the batter...