Word: looks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conn's technique is conventional: he gets the patient to look at a spot on the wall and concentrate upon a pleasant scene of his own choosing. As his hypnotic state deepens under the doctor's suggestions, pain subsides-provided he is not one of those patients who have a neurotic need for pain-and this relief may last several hours or longer. Eventually, the patient can be taught to hypnotize himself whenever pain becomes unusually severe. The method relieves anxiety as well as pain, and has enabled several Johns Hopkins patients to get along with reduced doses...
...years, Italian Anthropologist Fabrizio Mori has been trekking into the Libyan Desert to look for graffiti, ancient inscriptions on rocks. Near the oasis of Ghat, 500 miles south of the Mediterranean coast, he found on his last expedition a shallow cave with many graffiti scratched on its walls. When he dug into the sandy floor, he found a peculiar bundle: a goatskin wrapped around the desiccated body of a child. The entrails had been removed and replaced by a bundle of herbs...
...knew he wouldn't be Eliot's choice for a successor, but then he knew as well that Eliot wasn't doing the choosing. In fact, the chairman of the selection committee asked to consider 24 possible names later reported, "It took about one look at the list to make it clear that the only real candidate was A. Lawrence Lowell." A scant two weeks later, Lowell's election had been confirmed by both the Corporation and the Overseers...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-1 1 p.m. ) . A semidocumentary, Operation Moonshine takes a hoochraking look at still waters...
...other hand, endures a dreary job because she lives in hope of finding a husband. Life is bleak for each of them; he lives from meal to meal, and she trots resolutely to the dance hall each Saturday to continue her implacable man hunt. In the end, things look brighter. She exchanges a bit of hope for a crumb of knowledge; he gives knowledge for hope. There is even a suggestion that they may meet at the dance hall the following Saturday. The novel has its charm-a disconcerting quality in a New Realist book-but the woman...