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...inventory, two psychologists-H. H. Remmers of Purdue University and Robert H. Bauernfeind of Carleton College-questioned 6,000 school kids on every sort of problem from "I have to go to bed too early" to "I hit my sister." One-fourth of the children, they found, are chronic hypochondriacs, worried about all sorts of aches and pains (e.g., "I have a thumping . . ." "Sometimes I get real dizzy"). And almost as many are worried because "I am not nice-looking...
...recent letter to the CRIMSON, Mr. Weinberg has stated the effect of big time football on colleges. He then proposed a solution to the chronic Harvard problem of a losing team: play in a smaller league and, if necessary, abolish football at Harvard altogether. He implied that the only alternative to such de-emphasis is eventual commercialism, the evils of which are too well known to dwell upon...
...Brothers Karamazov, by Feodor Dostoevsky (June 30, 1912): "Chronic hysteria pervades the whole lot [of characters] from the point of view of the Western person...
...shop that does a thriving business in the stuff brujas prescribe, including dried toads and bits of amber. And not all the clients of brujas are unlettered Indians. A U.S. woman living in Taxco went to a bruja recently to get something to cure her little granddaughter's chronic car sickness. The prescription: a copper coin plastered to the child's navel. According to the grandmother, the charm worked like a charm...
...dark era of secret weapons, chronic war and multibillion-dollar budgetry, this was the way the U.S. Congress worked. Perhaps it was the only way it could work if more Senators were not to run screaming from the floor...