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...clue to an effective treatment for anxiety, say Ruesch and Prestwood, can be found in the nursery. "There is a natural impulse for the normal mother to alleviate the anxiety of the child by picking it up," a method which usually works. Trie doctors do not advocate rocking or dandling grownups, but they insist that an adult's need to share his anxieties, preferably with a loved one, is as great as an infant's. "The successful management of anxiety generated in daily life seems possible only through the process of sharing and communication," the researchers conclude. "[This...
...Moral Ideals. Born in Northampton, England in 1866, William Thomas Manning came to the U.S. with his father and mother when he was a high-school boy, took his training for the ministry at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. A forceful preacher, an energetic administrator and a precise theologian, he was called from a pastorate in Nashville, Tenn. in 1903 to be vicar of St. Agnes' Chapel in Manhattan's Trinity parish. Five years later, Dr. Manning became rector of Trinity Church and thus head of the wealthiest Episcopal parish...
...impulse, Silvestro buys a ticket to his mother's village in Sicily. When he gets there, his mother is roasting a fish and the smell releases a lot of memories: how his mother's face had once been "young and awe-inspiring"; how, in poverty, they had dined on snails and endives, and relished them; how Silvestro's grandfather, a good Socialist, had also been a good enough Catholic to ride in the St. Joseph's Day parade. When his mother takes Silvestro on her rounds as a practical nurse, Silvestro begins to learn his lesson...
Vittorini partially redeems all this by a quiet ending: Silvestro and his mother mutely discover their buoying devotion to each other. After all, she says shyly, "it makes one happy to talk to one's son, after 15 years . . ." And Silvestro, who has rediscovered compassion, thereby rediscovers man's strength...
Poor Adriana did not have her mother's business sense. She liked her work so much that the money was secondary, sometimes gave herself to her customers "out of physical exuberance." At times, she thought about a cute cottage, husband and kids (she had first been seduced by a chauffeur who promised her all that). But she thought just as often about "how I enjoyed love-making and money and the things money can provide...