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...preferred technique is cognitive behavioral therapy, in which patients are trained to force their attention away from the symptoms. "Just as focusing on a pain makes it seem more significant, ignoring it can make it seem much less," says Barsky. Patients are also instructed to counter panicky thoughts with self-reassurance, reminding themselves, for example, that stomach pain almost never means stomach cancer. Both cognitive therapy and medication seem to work, and at this point it's hard to say whether one is better than the other. "Nobody's done a comparative trial," says Fallon, "although Barsky...
...then travels to London, aims partly to underline the ways in which El Greco was not so much another of art history's lone wolves as he was a man connected to the prevailing lines of art, religion and philosophy in Europe at the time of the Counter Reformation. In the catalog, David Davies, the El Greco scholar who organized the show, patiently draws him down to earth. Then you look at the pictures, and El Greco's irreducible strangeness simply strikes you all over again...
...jewel-box city over the Tagus river, Toledo was also a center of the Counter Reformation, which sought to mobilize the faithful and harden the lines of Roman Catholic dogma. In the face of the Protestant challenge, the inquiring spirit of the High Renaissance had been overtaken by the dogmas of the Council of Trent. Eager to exploit the power of art but wary all the same of wayward artists, Rome operated like the old Hays office in Hollywood, mandating what could be shown and how to show it. Spain in particular was a cockpit of militant piety, the forcing...
...addition to Thomas-Graham, S. Allen Counter, the director of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, and David L. Evans, senior admissions officer of Harvard College, were the night’s official honorees...
...rise in campus theft runs counter to a 1 percent decrease in property crime in Cambridge. According to the Cambridge Police Department, violent crime rose by 6 percent...