Word: curely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work and distress was the norm. Shriver's war, though conducted in an era of less obvious urgency, is actually more complex, more challenging and more ambitious. For, unlike Depression-era make-work programs, it aims not only to relieve the symptoms of poverty but also to cure its causes as well. "It will be impossible to end completely the culture of poverty until opportunity is equal for all," says Shriver. "The programs of this agency are designed to alleviate permanently the conditions that have so long kept the poor 'in their place...
...patient's concern, his uneasiness, about doctors and doctoring is deeply ingrained. Because mankind has been so utterly and helplessly dependent on him, the doctor touches man's profoundest anxieties, eliciting both nervous humor and distrust. Said Voltaire: "Doctors pour drugs of which they know little to cure diseases of which they know less, into human beings of whom they know nothing." George Bernard Shaw gibed that doctors score only triumphs, since their mistakes are always buried. Over the ages, doctors have compounded both the awe and the anxiety by acting as a self-anointed priesthood whose rites...
Bunuel leads us along the borderline of bourgeois satire, in a vein as old as Moliere; but only briefly. Sadist Josef is an anti-Semite, and his violent Fascist explosions shatter the relatively calm surface of the satire. A visit from the cure begins as a mild lampoon of the clergy, but breaks all bounds when Madame seeks a little sex-education...
...simple enough: Dionysus (Paul Cooper) want to resurrect a great poet to help Athens through a crisis. Accompanied by Xanthias, his slave (Walt Licht), he descends to Hades and presides over a debate between Aeschylus (John Allman) and Euripides (Tom Popovich). Aeschylus triumphs and returns to life, presumably to cure the city of its ills...
...first in the medical profession to recognize the therapeutic value of Alcoholics Anonymous, who encouraged his patients to break through the "big egos" that liquor gave them and accept their excessive drinking as a disease over which they had no control, thus gain the humility necessary for a cure; of a heart attack; in Greenwich, Conn...