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...hardest part of an operation usually comes before the surgeon's knife has touched him. The strange sights and smells, the anesthesiologist's impatient coaxing, the confining anesthesia mask that is pressed against his face are all things that fill the youngster with terror. To prevent psychic traumas, reports Medical News, doctors have devised a series of toys that administer anesthesia without tears...
...infinitesimal one-tenth of a teaspoonful per day. This can be achieved only by an extreme regimen like the famed "rice diet." But even on this, says Dr. Page, a mere 25% of the patients get their blood pressure down to near-normal levels. So: "Whether one wishes the psychic mortification of the rice diet or the dubious gratification of a planned low-salt diet is up to the individual. So many good low-salt diets and foods are now available that it is not necessary to go to the 'rice-house.' A reliable wife...
Acidulous Society Author Cleveland (The Proper Bostonians, The Last Resorts) Amory, 38, scudded into Manhattan after a voyage from England, licking psychic wounds that he picked up in a five-month running battle of wills with the redoubtable Duchess of Windsor. Hostilities loomed the very moment the duchess hired Amory to carry on the ghosting of her autobiography, a meandering treatise on which three years had already been spent. Amory summed...
...Cumming's story is a more ambitious attempt both in its stylistic devices and in its deeper search for his subject's psychic needs. Although Cummins shows some insight into the insecurity of a fatherless Negro boy, his experiments with style are not half so successful. In order to gain immediacy Cummins uses the present tense throughout his narration, a dangerous and difficult patli on which he slips occasionally, especially when attempting to introduce background information...
...Easy Out. Siding with the psychiatrists, the court reasoned: "As an exclusive criterion the right-wrong test is inadequate in that a) it does not take sufficient account of psychic realities and scientific knowledge, and b) it is based upon one symptom and so cannot validly be applied in all circumstances . . . The 'irresistible impulse' test is also inadequate, in that it gives no recognition to mental illnesses characterized by brooding and reflection ... A broader test should be adopted." The proposed test, already known as the "Durham Rule": a jury must decide 1) whether an accused was suffering from...