Word: paines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first thing to recognize, in the judgment of the Baltimore doctors, is that a good deal of pain is normal in childbirth. Secondly, the worst of the pain can be made more easily bearable by the use of drugs. If a woman knows that this will be done, she is not so likely to have unreasoning, exaggerated fear of the pain itself. Moreover, there is a further distinct problem: many women have deep-seated anxieties which have nothing to do with physical pain-e.g., fear of increased responsibility, loss of personal freedom, economic hardships and overcrowding of the home...
...nature will be evidence of its psychological value as they grow to maturity. It will be easy to recognize [them]" The Baltimoreans' conclusions:1) "natural" childbirth, as peddled today, is nothing of the sort; 2) it can help some women to get by with smaller doses of pain-killing drugs; 3) its advantages are being so grossly exaggerated in "unbridled publicity" that tried & true methods are suffering unfairly by comparison...
There are several current misconceptions about the testimonial privilege to remain silent. The witness is not the ultimate judge of the tendency of an answer to incriminate him. He can be required, on pain of contempt punishment, to disclose enough to show a real possibility that an answer to the question will tend, rightly or wrongly, to convict him of a crime. Manifestly this is a delicate business. The witness must not be required to prove his guilt in demonstrating the incriminating character of the answer sought. A judge must decide when the witness has gone far enough to demonstrate...
...privilege against self-incrimination is a complex and technical subject. If, feeling that he may be called as a witness, he attempts to decide for himself the legality or the wisdom of asserting a privilege to remain silent, he is as ill-advised as the layman in serious pain who doses himself with home remedies. Any prospective witness who is doubtful about the desirability of answering questions should feel that it is essential for him to obtain the professional advice of a lawyer, to whom he makes prompt and full disclosure of the facts. Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor Arthur...
...Films; United Artists) is a fictionalized biography of famed French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901). The son of a nobleman, Lautrec was crippled in childhood and grew up an ugly, aristocratic dwarf who tried, in cognac and in the brothels and bistros of Paris, to forget the pain in his legs and heart. When he died at 37, after a feverish lifetime that included a sojourn in a madhouse, he left behind him a vivid record of the lower depths of Paris, its harlots and hunted, defeated and disfigured, drawn with artistry, insight and compassion...