Word: hollanders
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...deride mind-body therapies as something akin to quackery. Some fear that patients may abandon standard treatment to try unproved therapies. Doctors are also concerned that patients may blame themselves for not being able to control illness. "It is enough to have a diagnosis of cancer," says Dr. Jimmie Holland, chief of psychiatry at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. "It is too much to be told you caused the damn thing...
...devotion to the English scene and his delight in guying the manners and affectations of the French. But he was unusually well traveled. In a day when tourism was an arduous and expensive business, confined mainly to the rich, he made several visits to France (in the 1780s), toured Holland and Germany, and seems to have been to Rome and Florence. His final trip to Paris was in 1814, when he went to see the enormous collection of paintings and sculptures that Napoleon had brought back as war plunder for the Louvre. What he saw comes out in his work...