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...shock treatment in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest reinforced the notion that shock therapy is a cruel and barbaric anachronism. Partially as a result of the movie, the popular image of electric shock, which had been steadily fading in the U.S., grew even dimmer. Now shock treatment is regaining popularity, defended by many psychiatrists as a safe, humane and often dramatically effective method for treating some forms of mental illness, particularly depression...
...middle of the season, with the women floundering at 1-7, Walsh and her charges are in New Haven, Conn., awaiting this morning's start of the 1979 Ivy Women's Swimming Championships. But Harvard's hopes at historic Kiputh Exhibition Pool are considerably dimmer than they were in November, no thanks to four unfortunate happenings...
...total liberation occurred from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with their great reserves of mercy and sacrifice. State systems were becoming increasingly and totally materialistic. The West ended up by truly enforcing human rights, sometimes even excessively, but man's sense of responsibility to God and society grew dimmer and dimmer. In the past decades, the legalistically self aspect of Western approach and thinking has reached its final dimension and the world wound up in a harsh spiritual crisis and a political impasse. All the glorified technological achievements of Progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem...
...were discarded everywhere in the West: a total liberation occurred from the moral heritage of Christian centuries with their great reserves of mercy and sacrifice. The West ended up by truly enforcing human rights, sometimes even excessively, but man's sense of responsibility to God and society grew dimmer and dimmer...
After the intermission as time slipped away, and both Harvard's hopes of winning and the light became gradually dimmer, a familiar figure stepped out of the shadows to save the Crimson's day. Yes, indeed, Sue St. Louis struck, and struck again, scoring two goals in a five-minute period that sealed the game's outcome...