Word: curing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are still many things that states can do individually to make divorce a more civilized process, including broader grounds and interlocutory decrees that give couples several months to think things over before divorce becomes final. But even such healthy changes are not enough to cure the nation's sick divorce laws. What the U.S. really needs is something far more drastic: a complete new approach that totally banishes "fault" and all its sleazy consequences. The most sensible solution would be a system that readily grants divorce only after skilled clinicians confirm that a marriage is beyond repair...
...most humans, walking is the pedestrian business of putting one foot in front of the other. Not so in Germany. There it is a cherished tradition, a cure for ills mental and physical, and the kinetic tie that binds family and society together...
...temper her policies to fit the thoughts of the three men she seems to trust most. They are Food Minister Subramaniam, Defense Minister Chaven and Economist Asoka Mehta. Like her, they are all Socialists, but in 18 years of experience, they have seen that socialism is not always a cure, and is sometimes a curse for India's problems. By inclination, Indira prefers public ownership of plants, but her chief economic adviser, Asoka Mehta, is fully aware that government-owned factories have proved to be far less efficient than private enterprise in India. Indira is apt to be very wary...
That is the crux: most homosexuals apparently do not desire a cure. A generation ago, the view that homosexuality should be treated not as a vice but as a disease was considered progressive. Today in many quarters it is considered reactionary. Homophile opinion rejects the notion that homosexuals are sick, and argues that they simply have different tastes. Kinsey had a lot to do with this, for to him all sexual pleasure was equally valid. "The only unnatural sex act," he said, "is that which you cannot perform." His coauthor, Wardell Pomeroy, also argues that homosexuality should be accepted...
...college trainer is traditionally a man of many cliches in the sports world. "Give me the old-time athletes," he says, "they'd show these young guys a thing or two. And as for doctors, why with a piece of tape and a bottle of liniment they could cure anything better than these new fellows...