Word: kur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week in THE WORLD comes a natural sequel, a report on how a record 3,500,000 Germans are trudging off to spas to take the Kur. The story is called, forgivably enough, This Year in Marienbad...
...last year, Kurgäste, or cure-guests, cast $375 million on the health-giving waters, a 250% increase since 1955. "The great, the rich and the fat still come," says an official of the West German spa association. "But now that our social structure is more egalitarian, the Kur is for everyone...
Indeed, the Kur means more to Germans than treatment for any specific ailment. It assures them sympathy in antiseptic surroundings, connotes that the cure-guest has patriotically worked himself to exhaustion, and allows patients endless opportunity to discuss a favorite topic: food and its effect on the digestive tract. Nearly all spa patrons go on rigorous diets, which make them feel better about overeating the rest of the year. Most treatments seem worse than the ailments they aim to cure. Rising at dawn, the dedicated Kurgast gulps beakers of water whose mineral content-notably sodium chloride, sulphur and iron-makes...