Word: parkinsonism
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...Parkinson's disease, one of the most mysterious and disabling of common nervous disorders, is on the way out, according to two Boston authorities. Although the number of new cases reported in the U.S. has mounted steadily, to an estimated 34,000 last year, they believe this was about the peak. Now they expect the number to decline steadily, so that within 20 years, Parkinson's should cease to be a major medical problem, though a few new cases will still occur...
Violating Parkinson's Law. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson notified the U.S. Secret Service that in Washington he was not to be fenced in or followed by its agents, two of whom had shadowed his predecessor...
...what were they compared to the S-Man? Piglets to a python. In the diabolically clever guise of a self-help manual, The S-Man aims a good Swiftian kick at the cult and cultists of success. A British export, the book lacks the clubby good humor of Parkinson and Potter, substitutes instead the wittily barbed aphorisms of the success man's ascent ("New friends are best friends"). Cocktail party Platos will find a host of new S-Man concepts, including the Inhibition Barrier, the Law of Party Parity, and the Prostitute's Fallacy ("A sign of stagnancy...
...knowing the plot than can King Lear or Goldilocks, it may be stated that Querry is killed by Marie's husband in vengeance for an imagined sexual wrong, and the journalistic saint becomes a fallen angel. As an ironic footnote, he is buried under a misattributed quote. Parkinson sends a wreath inscribed with a line supposedly from Robert Browning ("Nature I loved, and, next to Nature, Art"). It is really from Walter Savage Landor, but Querry, ambiguous martyr, might have accepted it, as well as Lander's conclusion: "I warmed both hands before the fire of life...
...entirely serious when he gave man the sexual instinct," but the offspring is baptized. Querry, however, is beyond love and beyond all sacrament, his only surviving faith a certain "regard for the truth." And so he is doomed, not only by Corruption, in the person of Parkinson, but by Innocence, personified in Marie Rycker, the child wife of a local factory operator. "God protect us from all innocence," remarks one character. "At least the guilty know what they are about...