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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being attempted to improve output and efficiency. But Soviet-style Communists resist any thoroughgoing reform for fear that economic liberalization might spill over into social and political areas. Soviet Communism remains in command throughout most of Eastern Europe, constitutes the major influence on the French party, and controls a number of minor "pocket parties" such as the one in the U.S. and nearly all of the small Middle Eastern and Latin American parties...
...Knife. Technically, the total suppression of pain comes only with anesthesia, which cannot be prolonged. The lighter state of analgesia, or relief of pain without loss of consciousness, is far more difficult to achieve. For cancer patients with intractable pain of indisputably physical origin, neurosurgeons have devised a number of radical operations. One of the commonest, for pain anywhere below the neck, is cordotomy-literally, cutting the spinal cord-a remedy that is less drastic than it sounds. In the standard operation, the cord is exposed and a small cut is made in the nerve bundles controlling the pain-afflicted...
...newest and most significant advances in relief and control of pain have come through the side door, from psychiatry. Three in number, they involve the use of psychotropic drugs, the application of standard psychotherapeutic techniques, and hypnosis. First of the drugs to find favor was chlorpromazine (Thorazine), used to reduce the severe anxiety of patients with advanced cancer. Serendipitously, it was found that when their anxiety was lessened, so was their perception of pain -though not necessarily the underlying sensation. Many a patient said: "Doctor, I still feel the pain, but it doesn't bother me so much...
...Like T. S. Eliot's Webster, they always saw the skull be neath the loveliest skin. In a time when many artists have become so detached that they try to banish the figure al together, and sculptors can order their works from the nearest hardware store, a growing number of gifted artists are deeply and emotionally committed to ex pressing their distaste for the world, embodying their rage and resentment in powerful if often ugly images...
Many of these new "horror" artists have been well received in gallery exhibitions during the past year or so. Manhattan's Whitney Museum is planning to put together an exhibition of the work of a number of them in the autumn, although Associate Curator Robert Doty does not regard the show as a trend setter. "There's been a continuous stream of this kind of expressionistic art from the Romanesque period on ward," says he. "Look at Goya. Look at Bosch." For that matter, look at Chicago's Ivan Albright, California's Edward Kienholz...