Word: cures
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rambunctious local hot-rodders, who went roaring through town at night, leaving empty beer cans and angry citizens in their wild wake. Finally, in October 1956, Boyd decided to stop the hot-rodders by hiring cops for the first time. By last week, plainly convinced that the cure was worse than the disease, Boyd was a town full of cop haters...
...analysts) were united in their opposition to many major trends in the modern world of materialism, scientism, technology. Said New York's Heinz Westman: "The Freudian approach to analysis is mechanistic. Jungians not only believe in but have proof of the creative faculties of the soul, which can cure its own ills...
Only six months ago, the cry was that the Government was doing too little too late to cure the recession; now, with the economy on the upgrade, it is plain that a far bigger mistake would have been to do too much too soon. Says an Administration economist: "An antirecession policy is supposed to be dramatic, or you find yourself accused of having no policy at all. But just as important as what we did was our unwillingness to do some of the wrong things...
...favoring an analytic type of psychiatry. Now in the British Medical Journal, a brusque, no-nonsense Welshman indicates that it is time to boot the psychiatrists out and pump the patient full of food. His simple reasoning: the only treatable aspect of the baffling disorder is starvation, and the cure for starvation is food...
...hophead dream of an ending, Nick goes away for a cure, comes back, presumably to marry Holloway's daughter and settle down to a career as an artist. As the book jacket puts it solemnly: "Nobility and love may flower wherever the seeds are sown." What the book has to offer is the authenticity of setting and speech that recalls Nelson Algren's excursion into the same territory. Unfortunately, Author Motley has not written another Man With the Golden Arm-but only a sort of Man With the Wire-Recorder...