Word: nausea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...read the Education section, which had to do with speeches to various graduating classes by the heads of Harvard, M.I.T. and Princeton, and my feelings on finishing were those of dismay, disillusionment, disappointment and disgust, with a touch of nausea...
...Cressida and Cleopatra. The third event was the arrest and imprisonment of Shakespeare's patron, the Earl of Southampton, for helping Essex plot against the Queen. In combination, these events seem to have left Shakespeare at times with a bleak view of man's fate, and a nausea of sex. No existentialist has found life more meaningless than Shakespeare's "tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing...
...nightmare that follows is expertly gothic, but the nausea never disappears. Little should be said of the plot-Hitchcock enjoins all viewers to be silent-except that Anthony Perkins, who plays an amateur taxidermist, is sickeningly involved, and that a blow is dealt to mother love from which that sentiment may not recover. Director Hitchcock bears down too heavily in this one, and the delicate illusion of reality necessary for a creak-and-shriek movie becomes, instead, a spectacle of stomach-churning horror...
...large amounts of a preceding substance, desmosterol, are left sloshing around in the blood. As Boston's noted heart specialist, Dr. Robert W. Wilkins, has pointed out, nobody knows yet what effect this added desmosterol will have on patients. So far, undesirable reactions have been few and mild (nausea and occasional rashes). Whatever triparanol's ultimate effect on patients' health and survival, the drug gives physicians a chance to find some of the answers that laboratory research has not been able to give...
...Gordon's theory is that expecting him to do as well as others inspires a certain confidence, gives him the feeling that his world is being held together while he recuperates. Du Pont tried this system on one worker who was losing 60 working days a year through nausea. When efforts to find the trouble failed, psychiatrists and his supervisor set up a realistic performance standard, insisted that he keep to it. The worker warned his boss that the strain would bring on the usual nausea. Said the boss: "Go to the window and throw up, then get back...