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While I did indeed say that "so far, there is no scientific evidence that manipulation is better for a [back] patient than whistling Dixie" this comment by itself could be easily misunderstood. Permit me to add that the innumerable reports of favorable results from manipulation by skilled clinicians and grateful patients demand that this therapy be scientifically evaluated. In fact, such testimonials must be considered the preliminary evidence for suggesting the timeliness of a properly designed clinical trial of manipulation...
Company Chairman Orin E. Atkins first became interested in the project two years ago because he feared that many young people knew almost nothing about corporate America. Says Atkins: "Business is probably the most dynamic part of our society, and it's all too often misunderstood. The younger generation doesn't know anything about it at all." Reflecting the language of its young readers, Ashland says that initial response to the report has been "outasight...
...powerful case can be made that in a society heavily mulched with gossip journalism, novelized movies, campaign biographies, airline magazines, the printed bafflegab of lawyers and academics, interviews with pious athletes and pouting ads by misunderstood oil companies, the affliction called writer's block is insufficiently widespread. But no wretch who has ever tried to write anything will be surprised to learn that Nancy Isaac Kuriloff, a therapist who works in Los Angeles and deals with fear of writing, has plenty of clients...
...decision, the Virginia Supreme Court affirmed Judge Richard H.C. Taylor's decision to bar two reporters from a murder trial in a courtroom in Hanover, Va., where Patrick Henry had once orated in defense of freedom. Although several Justices later said publicly that their judgment had been misunderstood, more than 200 instances occurred in which various local judges attempted to bar the press from their courts. Last week a Supreme Court that appeared embarrassed by the consequences of its earlier decision not only overruled Judge Taylor but went on to proclaim a broad "right of access" by the press...
...MOST INSTANCES, though, King arrives at the not-so-surprising conclusion that few authors can untangle themselves from the bewildering signals of a misunderstood past. Psychoanalysis occasionally helps individual patients but offers small counsel to an emotionally troubled culture. King concludes, rightly, that even Faulkner's "transcendent" achievement in his much admired short story "The Bear" leads nowhere. Isaac, the fatherless heir, who analyzes his past by plodding through his grandfather's ledgers and talking it out--shrink/client style--with his uncle, recollects his past and so avoids repeating its mistakes. He renounces his slave and plantation holdings and becomes...