Word: paines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Shut-Eye. If they are not, they should be. Pro basketball bristles with violence. Falling players leave slippery smears of sweat on the floor that have to be mopped up with towels. Trainers use freezing sprays of ethyl chloride to relieve the pain of a sprain-and keep the man in the game. An estimated 85% of the pros play with nagging injuries-charley horses, jammed thumbs, pulled muscles-and St. Louis' Pettit and Syracuse's Dolph Schayes have kept going with broken wrists. Robertson himself is just getting over a torn muscle above his right hip, which...
...Travell has concentrated on what doctors call muscle spasm and patients call muscle cramps. During most of her career, the main drug used to relieve these pains-often agonizing, sometimes crippling-has been procaine (Novocain), which has to be injected. Dr. Travell learned to make skillful use of the so far unexplained fact that the patient's relief from pain often lasts for weeks or months, though the procaine itself wears off in a few hours. She has treated herself and practically every member of her family, including her husband, Investment Counselor John Powell, who gets his pains...
...sounds superficially like Chinese acupuncture (inserting needles into many parts of the body), some physicians are inclined to sniff at the scientific value of her work. Not so her grateful patients, who besides President Kennedy (and his brother Robert and father Joseph) include Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater (pain in the back and arms). "I'm just going to have to work out a back-door arrangement with Jack Kennedy, so I can keep using her," says Goldwater. A key ingredient in any Travell prescription is her own personality. Forceful but warm, enthusiastic but eminently sane, she gives...
Then he tackles a case too tangled for any brief. Sheila is a shimmeringly lovely, self-centered neurotic. The pain of their dissonant relationship becomes his joyless pleasure. Yet at novel's end, unhappiness binds them ever more tightly, having awakened a mutual profound pity...
Anyone who has suffered the pain and humiliation of having his ARETE cut from under him by a well-aimed charge of unresolved DICHOTOMY thrown in by a character loaded with gin and HUBRIS at a literary cocktail party ought to buy this splendidly written dictionary. Without being exactly a manual for the uncertain intellectual, it does live up to its blurb ("not only useful but enjoyable"). If a great many of the hundreds of terms seem Greek to the reader, the reason is that a great many of them are, for the Greeks were first in the study...