Word: beset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau. The emotional breakup of a young girl beset by a sordid family and a squalid love affair is told in the author's effective, indirect style, which proves that the shortest distance between fact and feeling is not necessarily a straight line...
...panel of live distinguished commentators agreed last night that the American Theater in beset by problems, but differed over how to cope with them...
...often brutally frank personal exchanges", the addicts slowly reveal to themselves the anxieties that led them to the needle, and through daily contact with similarly beset persons are reinforced in their determination to quit narcotics permanently. Says the founder of Synanon House, 48-year-old Charles E. Dederich, a potbellied Irishman who was once an alcoholic but never a drug addict: "It is something that works...
...this has itself contributed to the change. Psychologists report that 30 years ago the U.S. was in an "age of covert anxiety." It is now in an age of "overt anxiety." People tend to believe that it is wrong and "sick" to feel anxious or guilty; they are beset by guilt about guilt, by anxiety about anxiety...
...Cornell University Medical College, '26) is no ordinary physician. From her father, who had pioneered in galvanism-electrical treatment of muscle disorders-she picked up a keener-than-average interest in the human spine and its disks, its nerves and its muscles, and the aches and ills that beset them. Young Dr. Travell turned intensively to the study and treatment of pain-especially musculoskeletal pain. By 1930, her old med school put her on the faculty in the pharmacology division. There, in what is now the "great white palace" of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center on the East...