Word: healthfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...requested $350 million increase in postal rates and to cut down farm price supports, only better-than-hoped-for expansion in business can raise tax revenues to keep the 1960 budget at or near balance. So Staats sternly opposed annual slices of $15.5 million to $22 million proposed for health benefits to retired federal workers...
...noted Mannix, is the only major nation with no Government-controlled health plan. And it will have such a plan tomorrow, he prophesied gloomily, unless action is taken today to strengthen the voluntary medical system of which voluntary hospitals are a key component...
Ideally, the testing standards for early admittance should include not only mental ability but physical build, health, and social and emotional maturity. Schools are not generally equipped to handle such exhaustive testing, but proud parents would probably be happy to foot the bill for a private psychologist. Over the country, many youngsters who miss the cutoff point attend private schools for a year and then go public in the second grade. In Houston, where the whole matter has been put on a cash basis, eager mothers gladly shell out a special head tax of $90 to break the cutoff rule...
Bergman's magician (Max von Sydow) is a mid-19th century Mesmer whose touring Magnetic Health Theater is entirely composed of psychological castaways: the magician's wife (Ingrid Thulin), masquerading as a male helper; his witch-grandmother; an ailing, tosspot actor; and a silly, sex-ridden coachman. Headed for Stockholm by coach, the troupe is stopped by police at a tollgate, taken into the custody of three local notables and challenged to prove its supernatural powers. As the magician prepares for the performance, his associates get seduced by the kitchen help, the hostess has hysterics, and grandma hands...
...rise up from the meaningless carcass." Cinemagician Bergman seems to see both men as despairing artists whose creative imaginations doom them to social obloquy and the distrust and disdain of hardheaded authority. What scant optimism there is in this fatalistic philosophy lies in the final triumph of the Magnetic Health Theater: the artist suffers, but art endures...