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...Your review . . . reminds me of some acute remarks which were made on this engaging subject about 30 years ago. The following appeared, I believe, in 1918: . . . The human weakness for profanity is like the human weakness for tobacco-it does not cure anything, but it undoubtedly soothes and caresses. Carried to excess, it grieves the judicious; practiced in moderation, it allays the passions, promotes digestion, placates animosities, and makes for happiness at the domestic hearth . . . No sane man would seek relief in cussing if a safe fell upon him, or a lion bit off his leg, or an anarchist...
...psychiatry is being accepted more & more widely ... In other words, people are beginning to see that damage of the same kind can be done by a bullet, bacteria or a mother-in-law." The extreme Freudian approach, he thinks, is "almost metaphysical." Although strong for research, he believes that cure is more important than exact diagnosis: "One does not have to know the cause of a fire...
...urgent appeal to the U.S. for special medicine--needed in Paris to cure critically ill Frenchmen--was picked up over shortwave as Parker was transcribing a broadcast for the Network's nightly foreign newscast in mid-evening...
...every University department to eliminate waste expenditures and give the student the most for his money. The Hygiene committee has done all that a part-time student group can do. The Hygiene administrators know that the student body can go no farther. It is up to the Department to cure its own ills...
...Pound of Cure. In Nagoya, Japan, Masaja Ryuno, president of the Nishi-Tsukiji Crime Prevention Society, was being questioned by local police on suspicion of embezzling 31,900 yen of the society's funds...