Word: sciatica
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...pain-killing as the complete cure for many ills. Its chief method: a comparatively new technique of anesthesia known as "nerve block." Out last week was a new text (Conduction Anesthesia; Lippincott; $15) which held that nerve block is often the cure for sprains & fractures, hiccups, headaches, frostbite, sciatica, neuralgia, a score of other painful disorders...
Unending afflictions qualified 36-year old Teppe as the prophet of "implacable pessimism." As a child he was constantly ill and morose. He lost the sight of an eye in his 20s in a way no doctor could explain. Since then he has been plagued by rheumatism, sciatica, asthma, stomach ailments, severe headaches, and extreme insomnia. Dressed in pallbearer black, he drags out his days on a birdlike diet of bread crusts and boiled vegetables, in a barren, unheated apartment, aggressively campaigning to stimulate public interest in despondency.* Teppe has even offered a prize for the best Dolorist novel...
Wrote Zoya to Nadejda when her mother succumbed to a paralyzing attack of sciatica: "With Olympian calm, I put on my coat and go .to drown myself in the Neva...
...advent of an NBC program called What's New. Put on by Old Gold over Manhattan's WJZ, What's New sizzled the air waves with its rhythms under the direction of Benny Goodman. Before he retired to the Mayo clinic last year with sciatica, his pie-eyed pipings were used to persuade youths to switch to Camels...
Benny Goodman wants to commission clarinet works by such contemporaries as Prokofieff, William Walton, Aaron Copland. But last week he was busy with his new orchestra. When he was ill last summer with sciatica, for which he underwent an operation at the Mayo Clinic, Goodman disbanded his men, starting rumors that he was through. The new 15-man band, now to be heard on Columbia records, has a new, richer style, which Benny Goodman says is not swing. But it is still Goodman...