Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Manhattan Psychologist Anne Roe: doctors have spent too much time trying to find out why people get emotionally sick, and not enough time trying to find out why they stay emotionally well. Tests may show that a "patient" has a severe neurosis, but he may be prosperous and socially successful. Studying "normal" people, Dr. Roe admitted, has bored too many researchers...
...district was the Cave of Tzeverdeli, where Politis' comrades stored medical supplies and where, sick or wounded guerrillas were brought from the fighting around Mt. Parnassus. Politis' job was to shuttle battle-ready Communists northward to the mountains, and bring the wounded back for medical attention...
...surgery next morning by four threatening hoodlums; he was now a servant of the people, they told him, and he had no right to be away during regular working hours. Some doctors were unpleasant. One, called five miles on a case, berated and lectured the parents of a sick child: "This is a fine thing, all this way in my car on the free service...
...thirds of his life ("I wrote the first little note for it in 1901"). His preoccupation with illness goes back at least that far. Mann does not believe that illness is a source of artistic activity, "but if genius already exists, it stimulates it. It depends on who is sick. If it is a Nietzsche or a Dostoevsky . . ." Mann's own genius is of a plainer kind, founded on steady discipline. In writing Dr. Faustus, he averaged a little better than one page" of longhand a day, the same pace he has maintained for half a century...
Higher Education. In Teaneck, N.J., Louis Rich, 85, enrolled as a freshman at Bergen Junior College, explained: "I'm sick & tired of just the movies and radio...