Word: reasonlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...approval of Gyllenhammar's plan. Ironically, that was good news for Norway's Nordli. His minority Labor government faced increasing protests in the Storting (parliament) over the Swedish linkup and there were opposition threats of a no-confidence vote that could have forced him to resign. Reason for the resentment: the widespread feeling that Norway's prospective percentage of Volvo was not worth as much as Nordli was willing...
When politics seems to have no rhyme or reason, George Ball, former Under Secretary of State, and recently special consultant to the National Security Council, tries his hand at poetry. Sample lyrics from Pious Thoughts for the Christmas Season, a collection of eight poems sent to family and friends...
When Emanuel Brachfield's broken tibia failed to heal after six months in a cast and several operations, even his doctors began to worry. Reason: if fractured bones do not knit, the affected limb may eventually have to be amputated. Brachfield, 70, a retired New York City office worker, had heard from his physician that doctors at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center were experimenting with a treatment that uses electricity to mend broken bones. He tried it. After eight weeks of electrotherapy, Brachfield has shed cast and crutches and is walking normally again...
Bassett reports solid bone growth in 80% of 308 patients; Brighton says that he has achieved an 84% cure rate in his 200 cases. Their patients have even more reason to be pleased. As his cast and magnetic coils were removed last month, Brachfield asked anxiously: "Can I play shuffleboard? Can I bowl?" Bassett hesitated a moment, looked at an X ray of the healed fracture, then confidently assured his patient that he would soon be playing both sports...
Bloch's unconventional theories are quite likely to raise a few hobgoblins of their own among her colleagues. One reason: they run counter to a central doctrine of psychoanalysis, the Oedipus complex. In Bloch's reworking of that Freudian gospel, the kids are attracted to a parent, not out of the incestuous impulses postulated by Freud, but as a sexual strategy to gain control over a threatening parent. One needs only to return to the original Greek myth for proof of her infanticide theory, says Bloch. Unfortunately, she adds, the master apparently missed the key point: the young...