Word: frighted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...admits frankly: "That's the point-we don't know." Trying to find the answer, he is working on rabbits in a cramped laboratory at London's ancient (1721) Guy's Hospital. Sometimes a patient who has merely been jarred by bad news or a fright shows about the same "shock" symptoms as one who has been injured...
Generations of doctors have talked about "shock," but they have never agreed on what they mean by it. Trying to be more precise, some have distinguished different types such as those caused by fright and cold, and a special kind of "wound shock." Others have gone on to such refinements as primary and secondary wound shock. All this, say two British physicians, is not good enough: wound shock must be even more carefully classified if the patient is to get the right treatment-and the wrong treatment may cost the patient his life...
...concertos, including what he calls "the standard box-office concertos"-Brahms, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Tchaikovsky. He will soon get a chance to perform all of them. His parents are allowing him a limited number of engagements (24 this season), mostly with symphony orchestras. He likes playing in public. "Stage fright? What's that?" Does he like turning pro so young? "Oh, yes. I like going from city to city...
...happy performer who manages to play the notes at all my rest assured that not he, but the composer will be reviewed; should this become the style of the New York critics, much will have been done to eliminate stage-fright. Note, however, that our happy performer must be professional in order to merit this diversion of attention; only student performers have faults in the CRIMSON...
Cagney becomes a ragged, drink-wheedling bum. Only his fright after a narrow brush with death under the wheels of a truck, and a night in the alcoholic ward, make him want to stop drinking. With the help of a reformed lush (James Gleason), he painfully succeeds, though he never loses the craving for the one drink that he knows will start him skidding downhill again...