Word: companionship
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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...
...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...
...Companionship as preventive medicine...
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...
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...