Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Main Street, U.S.S.R., Levine...
...relief of pain is obviously one of the main functions of physicians," Boston Psychiatrist Frank Ervin noted last week, then added: "Ironically, it's one of the things we do least well-partly because we don't understand it." But Dr. Ervin is one of a Massachusetts General Hospital research team that is using ultramodern brain surgery both to subdue the severest forms of pain and to learn more about pain's mechanisms...
...friends point to the unique problems of a job in which his predecessor went mad. The Patriarch of Constantinople has only the power of persuasion among three others of equal rank, ruling the patriarchates of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. For "Elder Brother" Patriarch Athenagoras, 72, adroit politics is the main healing art in a strife-torn church that includes some 250 million souls...
...most folk dancing, the women were mostly decorative, while the men made the main contribution with dramatic jumps, a kind of rhythmical chain-gang walk, and a Charleston-like dance step. Scenes ranged from flirtatious rambles in the market place to formally styled initiation ceremonies. One episode, simply enacting the death of a man and a witch doctor's earnest attempts to save him, conveyed the feeling of real tragedy, accompanied by chanting as insistent and haunting as Ravel's Bolero...
...prosecution should they bring out Lolita. The matter is complicated by the fact that Nicolson, 42, is also an M.P., who was previously in trouble with his local Bournemouth Conservative Association for opposing government policy on Suez (TiME, Feb. 2). Admitted a Conservative M.P. last week: "Lolita is the main issue. Suez has been replaced." Said a local politico: "A director of a firm intending to publish this vulgar novel is no fitting representative for good Bournemouth citizens...