Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sculpture to his talents and triumphs, just as he may well get himself into more political rumpuses. After all his travels, however, Diego knows where home is. Happily fingering and musing over his pre-Cortesian sculptures, he looks like one of the statues himself-big-bellied, self-contained, benign, timeless...
...neurotics is just what Dr. Frank N. Allan, of Boston's Lahey Clinic, might call them-but he has an even more encouraging word for their disease. Four years ago he thought up a new category for people who can live with their jitters if they have to-"benign nervousness...
Actually, say Dr. Allan and co-worker Dr. Manuel Kaufman in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association, benign nervousness is a lot more common than the nasty, malignant (psychoneurotic) kind. One way to tell the difference: the patient with the benign kind is pleased if he is told there's nothing wrong with him physically; the true neurotic is apt to be disappointed...
...general practitioner, think Allan & Kaufman, can usually take care of benign nervousness. Talking things over is often enough; the patient should have a chance to tell his story. Sedatives like phenobarbital often help; so does religion. Most general practitioners, who suspect that psychiatrists put too much emphasis on the psyche in psychosomatic, would agree...
...Teatime Touch. With the benign air of the family's favorite aunt, florid, white-haired Party Chairman Lord Woolton rose on the flower-lined platform to announce good news. Conservative membership had risen from 1,200,000 to 2,250,000 from December 1947 to June 1948. Recent public opinion polls had shown that the Tories were ahead. But the delegates realized that they were still far from home. Said one: "The tide is turning. We must harness it to our projects." Said another: "But what are our projects...