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...Dirt. Fantastic and confused though symptoms of anxiety can be, there is often a kind of logic, even a dramatic beauty or poetic justice, about them. They seek to compensate for what is lacking. Thus, according to the Jungian school, the unconscious tries to correct or heal disorganization of the ego?or of society?by doggedly creating images of value, order and meaning. This process can produce fanatics, prophets and saints; it did produce, according to the analytic view of history, Torquemada, Calvin, Knox and Jonathan Edwards. No one can say what prophets or fanatics the U.S. may produce...
...conference with Nixon (reportedly prearranged by a telephone call between Joe Kennedy and his old friend Herbert Hoover) was outwardly just a good-will trip, to heal the recent campaign wounds. After greeting each other warmly in front of Nixon's stucco villa, the two recent adversaries retreated behind the screening around the Vice President's sun porch and talked animatedly for more than an hour. They talked some about the problems of transition and foreign policy, discussed the subject of possible Republicans in the Kennedy Administration, and agreed to meet again in about two weeks (when Nixon...
...felt the leg go," Ravenel said the Sunday after from his bed in Stillman Infirmary. "I knew it was had--real bad." And it was--doctors said Ravenel's sprained knee ligaments would take a full month to heal...
...patient who had a tumor and didn't know it, this might be helpful, not harmful. In other cases, physical trauma in the tumor area, said Dr. Auster, may even have a distinct beneficial effect: by destroying the cells, it may cause the tumor itself to heal...
...when a Japanese destroyer knifed through Lieut. Kennedy's PT boat in 1943. He spent most of 1944 in a Navy hospital, underwent a spinal disk operation, which was not fully successful. As a consequence, in October 1954, surgeons performed a delicate fusion of spinal disks. Slow to heal and set back by relapses that were complicated by the adrenal shortage, his condition became so grave that his family was summoned to his bedside. He had a third spinal operation the following February to remove a metal plate. Last rites were administered. But this time, after two weeks abed...