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...same disregard for the values of intellectual discipline marks its criticisms of undergraduate organizations. The CRIMSON according to i.e., need only serve as "an outlet for energies and the expression of a point of view." Most Crimeds, however, feel that, beside blowing off steam, they are developing an intellectual discipline which may liberate them from confusion. Seeking its own kind of integrity, not sexual or emotional, the CRIMSON spends much of its time attempting to clarify issues, and, we hope, offering constructive solutions. In the process, it would like to have a rational point of view. If this not enough...
...therapy: realization that the deceased is really dead and gone, outlet for a grief that otherwise will be unhealthy bottled up, a chance to talk out one's feelings. "You, as funeral directors," said Secretary Raether proudly, "have been providing this valuable help with the clergymen with whom you serve ... a service which has taken on the new significance of contributing to the mental health of our country...
...Psychiatrist Brian Bird. "Age, sex, race, occupation, recreation, hobbies, economic status . . . can often be read directly from the skin. But it also reveals emotions. Many people use their skin as the principal organ of expression." Well-known examples are blanching and blushing, chills and sweats, but another emotional outlet can be eczema. "In my experience with eczema," said Dr. Bird, "the most prominent hidden impulse is anger, but eczema patients peculiarly are unable to become angry openly...
...undergraduate knows, a sociologist is a man who is daily astonished by the commonplace. Usually, this professional sense of wonder finds its outlet in recording masses of data and using them to suggest trends, shifts in manners and mores, and the like. Occasionally one comes along who, like Tho stein Veblen (The Theory of the Leisure Class), gives society a therapeutic, though not necessarily accurate, boot in the pants. But a few of them suffer from a rare though virulent occupational disease. They become hectoring critics of their fellow men. They scold. They even grit their teeth...
...hospitals, limitation in others to minor surgery, nonoperative obstetrics, routine medical care. In Baltimore hospitals G.P.s are forbidden even to stitch a small cut or open an abscess in the emergency room. One hospital in Pittsburgh requires that the chief of obstetrics grant a G.P. official permission to use outlet forceps in a delivery. Twenty-three New York State hospital staffs are off limits to generalists...