Word: reliefer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Does the U.S. need heroes? Not in the sense of the man on the white horse who will take care of everything. To the uncertain, sheer conviction-right or wrong-is a kind of relief. This is what makes "heroes" out of the Hitlers, the Stalins, and even the Joe McCarthys. Adlai Stevenson, who is a hero of the intellectuals, knew the difference. Reaching back to Cicero in comparing himself to Jack Kennedy, he noted ruefully, "When Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke'-but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, the people said...
...patients were victims of an excruciating form of facial neuralgia known as tic douloureux, which often seems doubly painful because the victims know there is no sure relief. Drug after touted drug and a succession of surgical procedures have been tried, only to be found of limited value, or to be discarded entirely. But hope was rekindled when Columbia University's Dr. William Amols told the American Neurological Association that a new drug, carbamazepine-not yet generally available in the U.S.-has given relief to 75% of patients for as long as two years...
...Neurological Institute, Dr. Amols gave carbamazepine (already marketed in Europe as Tegretol by Geigy Pharmaceuticals) to 97 patients, aged 29 to 89, whose illnesses had lasted from three weeks to 50 years (average: ten years). Many had already had operations of various kinds. No fewer than 41 patients enjoyed relief of pain within a few hours, and many got along on three or four tablets a day. Others needed increased doses. In all, 73 patients benefited greatly from carbamazepine alone; four more improved when a modest dose of Dilantin was added...
...young, for whom so much of life is deferred. "LSD impairs anticipation, and that's the sole characteristic that puts us on top of the animal heap," says Kast. "If people no longer feel the need to calculate the necessary delays before acting, then chaos could result." Often, relief over the lifted burden comes into conflict with a lingering sense of responsibility, and this, Kast suspects, is the cause of many a bad trip...
...analyses beneath which the characters themselves threaten to disappear. The figure of Habe's protagonist, Heinrich von Benda, is so overburdened with the mantle of tragedy that his death, of a heart attack in the train bearing him back to occupied Vienna, comes as a kind of comic relief...