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...accepts such disparate artists as the lucky amateur who happens to be on the scene of interesting events (e.g., the story in the current LIFE on the student riots at Ames, Iowa was shot almost entirely by amateurs); as well as a professional such as W. Eugene Smith, a chronic agonizer ("I am constantly torn") who traveled 7,500 miles to find the right locale for his Spanish Village (1951), shot 500 negatives from which 17 were used...
...clinical center for observation and treatment of patients with chronic diseases...
Writes Sir Heneage in the Practitioner: "It would not be a particularly difficult feat...to produce quite a convincing thesis that the present lackadaisical outlook of the country, so repeatedly castigated by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, is a symptom of chronic [barbiturate] intoxication...
...Chronic Mistakes. Moreover, said Menninger, emotional troubles account for 85% of "stomach trouble" and "a very large percentage of heart difficulties." It is some 25 to 30% of the population who cause 60 to 100% of all accidents; they are the "accident-prone," related closely to "the mistake-makers that somehow or other keep on making the same mistakes again and again and again..." All of them are emotionally disturbed. "It is taken as a matter of course that cut fingers, broken arms and upset stomachs should have immediate attention. But it is seldom realized that prompt handling...
...also pointed out that not even the chronic drinker necessarily becomes an alcoholic-"there are millions of regular drinkers who aren't and won't become alcoholics...