Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your good Essay on American patience [March 25] you did not mention one of our (or anybody's!) most extraordinary examples of patient scientific research. After the discoveries of Uranus and Neptune in 1781 and 1846 it was suspected, because of small irregularities in the motions of these distant wanderers, that there was still another, even fainter, planet. Astronomers calculated a probable orbit, and in March 1929 young Clyde Tombaugh took up the search. He examined scores of telescopic photographs, each showing tens of thousands of star images, in pairs under the blink comparator, or dual microscope. It often...
...only be reassured by the strident argy-bargy between Moscow and Peking, despite some pundits' predictions that the U.S. stand in Viet Nam could only induce harmony between the two great Communist powers (see THE WORLD). As for the war itself, the President is firmly convinced that the patient and sustained application of U.S. power will eventually carry...
...only crude hormone extracts, which had to be injected. Now there is a plethora of estrogens and of the other sex hormones, progestins and androgens. Most of them are at least partly synthetic, and they can be taken easily by mouth. A couple of years ago, a patient who had kept on taking the birth-control pill Enovid after her menopause gave Dr. Wilson a new insight: the pill-which contains both a progestin and an estrogen-seemed adequate and acceptable for alleviating the "change of life...
...been the only investigator of hormone replacement. Dr. William H. Masters, St. Louis' scholar of sexual responses (TIME, Jan. 7), has tried estrogens, progestins, and testosterone (the principal male sex hormone) in various combinations. He believes that hormone prescriptions should be tailored to the individual patient, and though his own methods differ from Wilson's, Dr. Masters welcomes Feminine Forever because he believes it will focus attention on a problem that the medical profession has too generally ignored...
Shock Corridor can be chalked up as Fuller's best film to date. In it, a reporter feigns incest to gin admittance to a state mental institution so that he can track down the killer or a patient. Inside the asylum, Fuller subjects the reporter to a 90-minute horror show of shock treatments, nymphomaniac outbursts, sexual degeneracy, catatonia, schizoid fantasy, and psychotic gluttony. Shock Corridor is the Marat/Sade of film, a moody, almost choreographed, nightmare...