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...Saper (Huskins, Turgeon...
Critics, and that includes most conventional doctors, say the chief danger of alternative medicine -- aside from wasting money -- is that the patients get so carried away with unconventional cures that they dismiss regular medicine entirely. "The nightmare," says University of Chicago neurologist Clifford Saper, "is seeing someone who has a spinal-cord tumor who's been going to a chiropractor for years instead of to a doctor. You want to throw your hands up and say, 'If only I'd seen him earlier I could have helped him that much more.' " Doctors also warn about the risks of unregulated medicine...
Finally, rather than an apology from me--which I am as inclined to give to the Saper-stein-and-Chase crowd as I am to the anti-freedom vigilantes of old like Joe McCarthy--the best I can offer is some sound advice: the ethnic militants around Harvard ought to start the difficult but rewarding task of growing up. Martin Kilson Professor of Government
...both these stories succeed because they inspire interest and sympathy for their characters. After finishing Carl Saper's "The Hammerklavier," however, the reader only confused and annoyed. The one exception to this one's clarity, Saper's psychological piece treats the strange behavior of a young man at his brother's piano concert. Even allowing for the mental aberrations exhausted in this type of story, "The Hammerklavier" is incomplete. Ralph, Waddy, and the mother emerge only as unreal people in a jumbled and embarrassing dream...
...Saper's committee left three blank lines on the charity card in order to facilitate write...