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This year, 35 Harvard students--more than any other year--have volunteered to serve as big sisters or big brothers to children in need of companionship...

Author: By J. WYATT Emmerich, | Title: More Students Volunteer as Big Brothers | 12/8/1977 | See Source »

...subject matter. How the issue of guilt-the moral culpability for the holocaust-is applicable to America in 1977 is not explained. Is Erdelyi trying to pass the guilt for the "failing" onto Stephen, his young assistant, or is he simply a lonely old man reaching out for companionship? The answer seems to involve a bit of both, but the ambiguity chafes the nerves...

Author: By Mark Chaffie, | Title: Failing to Compel | 11/19/1977 | See Source »

...Companionship as preventive medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Loneliness Can Kill You | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

Voodoo spells, he says, often are effective in primitive cultures because they produce a social isolation that makes illness more likely, and religion has traditionally promoted good health by providing companionship and hope. The lesson for America's doctors, he believes, is that an old-fashioned bedside manner plays a crucial role in the recovery of patients. It may be counterproductive, he says, to send patients away with pills when what they need is human contact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Loneliness Can Kill You | 9/5/1977 | See Source »

Some pet problems can be handled with the oldest of remedies: loving care and companionship. In many cases, Topeka Animal Dermatologist George Doering reported, dogs resort to tail-chewing as a ploy to get attention from a neglectful master. Doering's prescription: either devote more time to the pet or, if Rover is willing, bring in another dog as a playmate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Rx for Fido, Fifi and Friends | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

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