Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...politics, Quinn writes of her generation that "[w]e both participate and we don't." She explains that many volunteer in their towns, but fail to vote because of cynicism about government. Perhaps she was speaking about her editor, David Lauren, who admits that he failed to vote in last Tuesday's elections, though he did "send out chain letters to get out the vote...
According to Quinn, Generation X is utterly confused on every other issue, too, including safe sex, the environment, multiculturalism and alternative lifestyles. In political terms, the article concludes, its readership is hopelessly divided...
Keeping her hands a few inches away from her seated patient, nurse Janet Quinn moves them around his body from head to toe, as if she were brushing away cobwebs. At the end of each sweeping motion, her eyes closed, she makes a dismissive gesture, as if shaking water off from her fingertips...
...Quinn is giving "therapeutic touch" (TT), a controversial form of therapy that is spreading through the ranks of nursing and already claims tens of thousands of practitioners in the U.S. and many foreign countries. According to its proponents, TT not only comforts and relaxes patients, but also relieves pain, produces chemical changes in the blood and promotes healing...
...steps for administering TT to a patient seem akin to witchcraft. As described by nurse Quinn, a leading advocate of the technique, they include "centering" within one's head, assessing which areas of the energy field feel "out of balance" with the rest of the field, clearing and mobilizing the energy field, and finally, "directing" energy to facilitate healing. Quinn admits, though, that "we don't have empirical data to demonstrate the existence of a personal energy field. It's a working hypothesis. In science, you're allowed to do that...