Word: curing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would have plenty of company-solid German doctors who warn against "accelerating one's hips and legs in opposite directions," parents and churchmen who deplore "the overt sexual implications of the dance." But some German intellectuals defend the twist. It is, says one Munich psychiatrist, "a proper cure for working off frustrations." And a psychiatrist in Berlin, where the cold war takes the rap for all sorts of aberrations, sees it as a byproduct of an anxious age. ''The twist craze," says he, "can be attributed to Atomangst...
...faith-healing service, at which a minister lays hands on the lame, the halt and the blind while praying for a cure from God, is a growing U.S. religious practice. Pentecostal Preacher Oral Roberts, best known of the nation's circuit-riding faith healers, has made the practice a standard feature of his big-time revival meetings, which draw crowds of up to 30,000. Even some Episcopal ministers conduct healing services...
Participation in the administration by the Faculty will not cure the University's ills, but a concern for the way the place is managed might help, a realization that education here rests to a great extent of Harvard's ability to maintain a sound institution...
Corruption & Cure. The title figure and unlikely hero of Bloomfield's parable is a maker and seller of pornographic books and pictures, whose name is Samuels, or perhaps Samson, as is noted in files of the London police. The uncertainty reflects the book's focal paradox: Sammael is the angel of death, but Samson, as the author explains (stoutly refusing to allow himself the joys of obscurantism) means "of the sun, solar." The bookseller is subverter, protector, panderer and priest to a group of curious cripples-Julius, his bloodless, asexual young assistant; Louise, a housewife whose husband thinks...
What It Could Be. One cure for secularism in schools is suggested by Christopher Dawson's The Crisis of Western Education (Sheed & Ward; $3.95), a brief for the restoration of Christian culture in learning, by Harvard's first professor of Roman Catholic Studies. Philip H. Phenix's Education and the Common Good (Harper; $4) is a Presbyterian's plan for teaching religious values in secular schools without violating laws or liberties. John W. Gardner's Excellence (Harper; $3.95) is an eloquent case, by the articulate president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, for high...