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...pain was felt (TIME, Nov. 14). Almost any willing subject can be hypnotized, but the best patients are those already suffering from some mental or physical shock, or some habit which has already weakened their resistance. Hypnotism is a process of mental dissociation during which all activity is quiescent; no desire, no antagonism, no conflict. In this condition any suggestion registers powerfully and will be carried into action either at the moment, or after the hypnosis is over and forgotten, according to the commands of the operator. The cure of alcoholics and drug addicts is effected by replacing the desire...
...other ingredients, though orthodox and not unpalatable, become somewhat spiritless. In this case they are a marital quarrel, a soupçon of extra-marital jealousy, a sudden but not surprising beautification of the wife, and, a bad last, the reconciliation which leaves her in charge of a quiescent situation...
...Quiescent now for several moons, the Chinese civil war broke out suddenly last week in all its Chinese fury and the results were buried in customary Chinese contradictions...
...that in which Boston's theatres suffer sleeping sickness and the sole diversions open to the entertainment seeker are the movies and those sacred institutions of the drama which clutter up Scoolay Square. Such diversions are amusing but they cannot quite fill every requirement. If the playhouses must be quiescent at some time during the year there would appear, at least to the student, to be no better time than the Midyear period. Then he could devote undivided attention to his books, safe in the knowledge that Tremont Street was but an echoing lane and that dust lay an inch...
Nickel R. R. (controlled by the Van Sweringens) was quiescent...