Word: panacea
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...miserable New York intellectual hovers on the Manhattan Bridge, preparing to take the plunge. An old college chum happens by, pulls him down and speaks of love-the panacea for all spiritual ills. "I'm more in love today than on the day I married," he swears, "but my wife won't give me a divorce." Solution: wife swapping, with the intellectual taking over for the husband and the husband going off to his mistress. But the cure turns out to be worse than the disease. The intellectual's misery is contagious, and six weeks later everyone...
...rent supplements plan does not purport to be a panacea for the ghetto. Its concept, however, is vastly superior to that of public housing, which has not been able to accommodate most of the nation's poor and often makes matters worse. In some cases of urban renewal, poor people are evicted without sufficient provision being made for their relocation at rents they can pay. In other cases, the new public housing structures themselves deteriorate into slums. Because all tenants of a public housing project have low incomes, the project has basically the same atmosphere as an urban ghetto; almost...
...Committee could build few enough schols--of great enough size--to prevent such seeping imbalance in the future. But the Committee feels strongly that "racially imbalanced schools cannot be eliminated in a large city school system...by any one method yet devised." "The panacea is yet to be discovered," they conclude...
Taking from Caesar. Many voters saw in legalized gambling a fiscal panacea whereby they would not only have to render less unto Caesar but also-with luck-Caesar might render something unto them. In New York, a state lottery for the support of education received overwhelming endorsement, while in New Jersey, night harness racing was approved, opening the track-and the heavily taxed parimutuel windows-to many people who could not make it in the daytime...
...Apparently susceptibility to most diseases has no relationship to fitness," they concluded from their research. Exercise, they suggest in the current Journal of the Association for Physical and Mental Rehabilitation, is certainly not "a universal panacea...