Word: feelgood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...services or higher taxes, neither do we want high deficits bequeathed to our children. Our desire for a gain-no pain cure has left us looking like a whiny child, unwilling to swallow the bitter, restorative fiscal medicine. We have entrusted the economic health of the nation to Dr. Feelgood and have demonstrated a willingness to forgive deception and punish forthrightness...
...unprecedented action, Random House abruptly recalled all 58,000 copies of the biography. What destined the volumes for the shredder was a threatened libel suit by Dr. Edward A. Kantor. Biographer C. David Heymann had portrayed the Beverly Hills physician as Hutton's "prematurely gray-haired" Dr. Feelgood, a trusted medical adviser since 1943. In fact, Kantor turned 14 that year, and he did not treat the alcohol-and pill-addicted heiress until...
Quite apart from the Dr. Feelgood syndrome, some observers point to the intense competitiveness of American life as a major motivation for drug use. Says English-born Author Christopher Isherwood (Berlin Stories), who lives in Santa Monica, Calif.: "Americans are awfully rattled about their jobs. Can they deliver properly, can they do it? Life is a nasty, rough game, always was. Some people can't face it without some sort of backup." Rajendra Misra, Indian-born executive director of a community health center in East Cleveland, Ohio, maintains: "Right from childhood in this country there is pressure for accomplishment...