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...Walter Freeman and James Watts of George Washington University, pioneers in psychosurgery, told of having performed prefrontal lobotomy - a brain operation which frees the patient from feelings of anxiety and fear - on patients who were suffering unbearable pain from chronic disease (TIME, Dec. 23). The operation had no effect on the disease, and did nothing to lessen the pain; but the patients, freed of anxiety, now found their suffering bearable, and some even laughed at it. The doctors' conclusion: "When pain no longer raises a mental picture of future disability, it can be borne with equanimity...
When the pigeons continued to foil all would-be ejectors, a mild boom in eyeshades was reported around the Square as chronic library-goers dug in for a sustained aerial seige. "It may be good for flowers, but I'm no lily," quipped one burly book-lover...
...chronic soreheads came up with such remarks as "anything would be an improvement" or requested "proctors with some common sense." But offsetting these, many blanks were submitted by men who either saw nothing better in store than the Union had offered, or confined their requests to bathtubs, smaller common rooms, and intellectual stimulation...
...stories in the current issue almost are good, none quite ring the bell. With amateur authors, this sort of just-miss effect is bound to be prevalent, and unless a skillful and thorough editorial hand guides the magazine more carefully in the future, "Radditudes" will find itself with a chronic weakness. In "Afraid of Happiness," for instance, Miss Susan Seidman makes a brave attempt at satirizing a special horrid type of love-story--the sort that appears in periodicals of the "True Romance" ilk. For the most part, she achieves her effect subtly, but she spoils the total impression...
...before their Senior year. Perhaps Student Council investigation to bring order out of present Red Book chaos will produce a first-rate publication by the end of the year. But even if a fine Red-Book eventually emerges, the Council will merely be putting a band-aid on a chronic rash if it considers the issue closed...