Word: curtness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...care especially. Technology has brought great improvements in curative powers, but patients wish they could get more attention from their doctors rather than being seen mostly by nurses and technicians. Says Victoria Leonard, executive director of the National Women's Health Network: "We see doctors not answering questions, giving curt answers, not spending enough time with patients. Years ago a doctor was more of a family adviser. Now medicine tends to attract the person who enjoys the high-tech procedures. Almost by definition, that's not a people person...
...when Paris Review editors send John Barth a check and additional questions to beef up a woefully brief interview, the author of the 800-page The Sot-Weed Factor returns the emolument with a curt note: "It doesn't displease me to hear that our interview will be perhaps the shortest one you've run. In fact, it's a bit shorter now than it was before (enclosed). Better not run it by me again...
...Curt Sandburg digs digging...
...then of course, no one intelligent would feel comfortable in a pit full of poisonous snakes. And Curt Sandburg is more of a bona fide archeaologist than Harrison Ford ever could...
...YORK -- Curt Young beat Ron Guidry in a duel of left-handers, as Oakland scored the winning run in the ninth inning on an error by New York center fielder Rickey Henderson to defeat the Yankees, 2-1, Tuesday night...