Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...head. Almost invariably, he reports, the technique stops headaches. Still another imaginative treatment has been introduced by Dr. Howard Kurland at Northwestern University (Quick Headache Relief Without Drugs; Morrow; $7.95). He applies strong pressure at four sets of points on the body (wrists, temples, hands and neck). The object of Kurland's "acupressure": to overload the nervous system's pain centers?in effect, jamming the signals from the headache. While Kurland's results have not been widely duplicated, his own patients insist that acupressure works...
...decidedly comfortable art. There is no question of his technical skill or the "prettiness' of his paintings, large or small (he generally preferred to paint them about 10' by 15"). Indeed, they are jewels. One feels the same covetousness for these shimmering landscapes as for any precious and portable object...
...published. Standard verdure grows and decays; Lionni's plants do neither. Instead, writes Lionni, they exist outside of time, "like a memory that has taken on actuality." These matterless, insubstantial greens, he notes, "though impervious to any violent acts of nature, disintegrate at the least contact with an object alien to their normal environment, dissolving into dust and leaving only a chemically inert white powder." Spotting the organisms, which fall into two basic groups, tests faculties of the most accomplished observers. "Those of the first group are directly discernible by the senses and indirectly by instruments," explains Lionni, "while...
Adam Klein, a first year business student, said yesterday he does not object to Masiewicki's election, but added "if a man were elected as the only representative, that would defeat the purpose of the women's organization--meeting women's needs...
...Nile and Blue Nile. Unlike the Nile, the Congo held no fascination for Europeans. It was discovered almost by accident by the Portuguese mariner Diogo Cao, who sailed into its mouth in 1482 while searching for, among other things, the kingdom of Prester John, whose realm had been the object of crusades for centuries...