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Philadelphia's Dr. Edward Weiss added that the chronic rheumatic whose trouble starts in the mind suffers from "chronic resentment," but does not realize it. The thing for doctors to do in such cases, he said, is to look for a "focal conflict" as well as for a focal infection. Otherwise, the doctor might do the patient harm by "well-meaning but mistaken" efforts to find a nonexistent physical cause; the real trouble might be an embittered marriage rather than an abscessed tooth...
...foot of his bed (which now stands in his studio so that he can work propped up in it) was the focal point of Matisse's new labors: a working model of the chapel he is designing for a Dominican home for convalescent girls not far from his house in Vence...
...suggestions that poured in from some 2.000 readers sounded like an eyewash or a new breakfast food (Oculo, Focal, Imagec, Visray, Telio, Vix). Others sounded like nothing on earth (Lookies, Peeps, Scan, Vudio, Luksee, Eyeviews). The Daily Express thought that a few revealed "outrageous ingenuity" (e.g., Vizema, Rad-E-Eye, C.-U., Look-Hear, Radi...
...They seem powerless and wise, but not with earthly knowledge. Giuliano seems to be "held upright by the magic of the Madonna at whom he is looking." The Virgin, with the Child at her breast, sits at the center of the chapel's end wall. She is the focal point around which Michelangelo's half-classical and half-Christian little universe is clustered...
...focal point of any funeral service is the body of the deceased and has been for centuries, but it is in no way intended to de-emphasize eternal life inherited by the spirit. . . . My personal experience in deaths of my own family has been such that I would rather remember them in a restful, composed position than in the final struggles for life. . . DELWIN W. HURD Minot...