Word: progressions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convalesced at Walter Reed Army Medical Center from the stroke he suffered last New Year's Eve, iron-willed and gallant Justice William O. Douglas, 76, was frequently more optimistic about his progress than his doctors. Medical experts questioned whether he would regain use of his left leg and arm, paralyzed by the stroke (TIME, Feb. 17). Doctors were also reportedly disturbed by his mental as well as physical state. Douglas objected to a psychoneurological examination and complained about plots to kill him or remove him from the bench. Last week, six days after his return to the court...
...guardedly compliments the ABC documentary for calling attention to a genuine need for closer congressional supervision of the IRS. His position is bolstered by the fact that for all the current bad publicity - much of which concerns incidents that occurred before he took over - he has made unmistakable progress toward keeping the 92,000-employee IRS out of politics and offering better service to small taxpayers...
...Alexander "has been more responsive to the problems of average taxpayers than any other commissioner" - though she adds that the IRS "is just moving out of the ice age in perceiving the special problems facing millions of lower-and middle-income people." Alexander's rating of his own progress is similarly modest: he gives himself a B-plus. That seems a reasonable assessment...
...opening session, everyone is given a notebook and ballpoint pen and told to use them freely. "Thoughts" are to be shunned in favor of writing down "feelings," which are "neither good nor bad, they just are." As the meetings progress, the participants are told, they will be asked to write answers to questions ("What is the quality in us that I like best?"). These answers will be the basis of what, in the jargon of the Encounter, is called a "conjugal dialogue." It takes place when husband and wife are alone and have traded notebooks...
...have abnormally low levels of certain brain chemicals. Whether this imbalance is a cause of depression or one of its effects remains to be determined. What is known is that it can be corrected in some cases with drugs known as MAO inhibitors, which affect brain chemistry, not the progress of the People's Revolution in China. Two weeks after he started taking MAO inhibitors, Knauth was able to function again. He took up his old editorial projects, wrote this book and became a crusader for the National Mental Health Association...