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...spent years a his life being successfully and utterly someone else: a Trappist monk, a doctor of psychology, a dean of philosophy at a small Pennsylvania college, a law student, a surgeon in the Royal Canadian Navy, a deputy warden at a prison in Texas. Demara took the protean itch and amateur's gusto, old American traits, to new frontiers of pathology and fraud...
...less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day. And Allie's fate suggests that the trend is irreversible. He undoes himself because he carries with him the civilization he thought he had abandoned. He explains his itch to improve the wilderness: "Why live like savages? In the end, Robinson Crusoe went back home! But we're staying." His delusion is emblematic of the age: he runs but he cannot hide. -By Paul Gray
...year of the point" seemed as though it was going to be next year as the Dunster-Mather squad continued to monopolize play into the second half. After another Dunster-Mather touchdown, the score remained 19-0 until the end of the three-year itch...
...documented by blood tests. Moreover, the diet and chemical testing relies solely on the patient's reporting, a subjective process open to self-fulfilling prophecies. Says Dr. Sheldon Spector of Denver's National Jewish Hospital: "If you're convinced your teeth are going to itch when you eat wheat, then they will itch." Despite the dispute, desperate sufferers are eager to try "ecological medicine." Says Randolph, who has been treating such patients for a quarter-century, the past five years at a 20-bed facility at American International Hospital in Zion, Ill.: "I keep the beds filled...
...most passionate case against the Administration's developing policy was made by Robert E. White, former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, who was fired by Reagan a month ago. White accused the U.S. military of an "inexplicable" itch to get in on a war that the leftists already are losing. The real threat to the junta, said White, comes from extreme rightists who are opposed to land reform, and specifically from death squads that the junta has been unable to control (see following story). White argued that the junta had crushed the guerrillas' "final offensive" in January "without...