Word: parkinsonism
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There are other flashes of crisp satire in this collection of essays. In a modern version of the Christmas carol Good King Wenceslas, the king's good intentions get lost in a bureaucratic maze. When Parkinson analyzes beards through history and finds them to be a sure indicator of lack of civilization (a thicket behind which older men could hide their uncertainties), he is at his bluff best. But the crotchety professor can also be dull. His strident common sense often sounds simply pompous; and his habit of describing imaginary conversations seems contrived. Parkinson's biggest problem...
...DELAY by C. Northcote Parkinson. 128 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...eighth book, Cyril Northcote Parkinson continues to tell people-especially businessmen-what they already know. This time he offers the Law of Delay, which holds that "delay is the deadliest form of denial." Let the man who never postponed a decision until too late cast the first stone...
Died. Frances Parkinson Keyes, 84, Virginia-born gentlewoman, world traveler, associate editor of Good Housekeeping (1923-35), and author of more than 50 books; in New Orleans. Though she never won great critical acclaim, she developed a sizable following for her light, brightly told tales, most often about New Orleans and Southern plantation life, as in Dinner at Antoine's, Crescent Carnival and Steamboat Gothic...
...first time in FDA history, manufacturers will be required to conduct long-term studies of the drug's effects." They will have to compile data on the reported effects of patients under treatment, and on the results of post-mortem examinations of those who die of Parkinson's disease. There is good reason for this caution. Nearly all patients treated with L-dopa suffer some side effects, among which loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting are considered minor. More serious are changes in blood pressure and the white-blood-cell system and, paradoxically, involuntary muscle movements...