Word: cures
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emergency operation, ran after him to demand $10 as an examination fee. The appendix ruptured, Sahl recovered in a veterans' hospital, and the American Medical Association joined his repertory (his mildest joke about the medical world is that "the A.M.A. opposes chiropractors and witch doctors and any other cure that is quick...
...remedy: salt (given intravenously if the patient cannot swallow enough). The milder and more insidious chronic salt depletion shows the same signs, but sometimes in such vague form as to be mistaken for malingering or hypochondria. Salt tablets (but only for those who really sweat excessively) will prevent or cure...
...Cost & Cure. For so French a painter, it is ironic that Normandy-born Poussin did almost all his work outside his native land. After studying anatomy in a Paris hospital, he set out for Rome, where he filled notebook after notebook with sketches of ancient ruins and nearly starved to death. Once, when the Vatican was at odds with Cardinal Richelieu, papal troops tried to beat the Frenchman up. He caught syphilis, and partly to avoid further temptation, married the daughter of the pastry cook who nursed him back to health. The disease left its mark-trembling hands and eventual...
...using the toilet, no chance of ever earning a living. Johnson wondered aloud, in his agony, what would happen to David when he and his wife were gone. What would this incubus do to the other boys? Dr. Berridge echoed the words of other physicians: "There is no cure." The words rang in Johnson's mind until he took mercy into his own hands...
...which imitation and repetition have momentarily taken the place of creative statement. If the art in the Festival has little to say, why blame the Festival because we're in the tag-end of a stylistic period from which new forms arise? The cure for the atonal music of Schoenberg is not more and more Victor Herbert. The cure for the Boston Arts Festival is not to kill it off because it does...