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...political naivete. At one point the commission says it "recognizes the danger of lapsing into fuzzy-minded ecstacy over the umlimited social potential of the new electronic technology." But in a particularly nauseating passage electronic media are described as "magnificent electronic extensions of ourselves which can teach, and heal and inspire, if we use them not for the ruthless pursuit of the least common denominator but for their highest human potential. They give us the tools to lead the world out of ignorance and misery." You've got to be kidding...
When Emanuel Brachfield's broken tibia failed to heal after six months in a cast and several operations, even his doctors began to worry. Reason: if fractured bones do not knit, the affected limb may eventually have to be amputated. Brachfield, 70, a retired New York City office worker, had heard from his physician that doctors at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center were experimenting with a treatment that uses electricity to mend broken bones. He tried it. After eight weeks of electrotherapy, Brachfield has shed cast and crutches and is walking normally again...
...craziness tempered by childlike seriousness. This aura is, in turn, scientifically punctured by the sickeningly helpful middle-Americans and mysterious vodka-guzzling Russians who emerge from the shadows to help separate the dictator from his people. Blending caricature and truth, Updike thus manages a type of satire that helps heal over with humor what it has just incised--a satisfying trick...
...lunch pail into a press, causing $30,000 in damage. Now, says Excello President Gary Feldmar, "workers have a much more relaxed attitude. They can slam a racketball against the wall and pretend they're hitting their wife's head, or mine, and release tensions in a heal...
...temple swelled with new members-up to 20,000, Jones claimed. But his services became stranger and stranger. Jones would "heal" parishioners by pretending to draw forth "cancers" that actually were bloody chicken gizzards...