Word: painlessness
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...sounds painless; but on a day like yesterday, opening day for book authorizations, when some 4,000 undergraduate and graduate veterans filed through Mem Hall and converged, authorizations in hands, on the Square, it isn't. During rush hours, the Square stores catering to the G.I. set take on the aspect of the Times Square station at 5 p.m., and perspiring salesmen descend from their stacks in many cases only to tell their perspiring customers that a book is (1) sold out, (2) out-or-print, (3) on order, or (4) just plain, ordinary, everyday unobtainable
...Network standbys will continue. Tuesdays and Thursdays from eight o'clock until nine o'clock the customary Music One programs will again assist undergraduate musicians in relatively painless homework sessions. Although the Network will not cover College football contests as previously announced since Boston's WHDH has assumed the broadcasting rights, post-game dance music is definitely on the agenda. Sometime during this term, the Network plans to extend its wiring facilities into the Yard and Business School areas. Service at Stillman Infirmary is again projected. Each bed will be equipped with "hush tone" speakers, whose installation will be completed...
Cheated of Pain. Dr. Sawyer's deliveries were not wholly painless, he admits, but the pain was not only tolerable (in normal deliveries) but was "lost . . . in a kind of ecstasy and pride. . . ." His analysis of feminine psychology borrows from Dr. Helene Deutsch of Boston, a temperate Freudian who notes in her two-volume Psychology of Women that an "increasing number of women" react strangely to the "perfect painless delivery" produced by modern anesthetics. They feel cheated, disappointed and "empty," sometimes think the baby is not theirs but that of another woman...
...knife was not necessary-a painless remedy had been found. The remedy: a new A.M.A. public-relations section which would take over Fishbein's job of damning Government medical care. It would also plug for private medical prepayment plans to forestall Federal health insurance. Dr. Fishbein would still edit the A.M.A. Journal, Hygeia...
These drawbacks to self-destruction, as ticked off by Dorothy Parker, do not apply to an overdose of sleeping pills. In recent years the barbiturates have enjoyed alarming popularity as a painless means of suicide, especially among women who are repelled by the more violent forms. Accidental as well as deliberate overdoses kill hundreds yearly...