Word: curing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Appointive systems are no cure-all. "There's a certain amount of obsequious politicking with either appointments or elections," says Justice Franklin Spears. Notes Lawyer McMains: "The problem with appointments is who gets to do it. If it's the Governor, you've just shifted where the politics are." In some states merit selection has scarcely contained the efforts spent to put judges on the bench and keep them there. "Judicial campaigns are getting noisier, nastier and costlier," notes Georgetown Law Professor Roy Schotland, an authority on campaign spending...
...grant thee nobility, cure for hopes crashing...
Another favorite New Age cure for the misfortunes of the body is the . therapeutic touch, again an ancient method newly back in fashion. While nobody knows exactly how these quasi-medical techniques work, people generally turn to them because conventional medicine seems so impersonal, costs so much and fails so often. Greg Schelkun, for example, graduated from Dartmouth and was working for a Boston publisher when he got a chance to go to the Orient with his mother, who was suffering from chronic chills and fevers. In the Philippines she met a healer who laid his hands...
Nobody knows just when it all started or what it all means, but millions of Americans now find themselves trying to learn about their former lives, cure illness without medicine, meet travelers from other galaxies, know the unknowable. And through the center of the fad runs the actress, dancer and now best- selling writer- teacher Shirley MacLaine. See Living...
...Harvard men's hockey team, a trip to upstate New York might be the best cure for a serious case of "legitimacy blues...