Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Approximately 500 member of the Class of '69 attended the dinner on Thursday evening, and early Friday morning many of them began to feel sick. The University Health Services stated that they had a number of men come in on Friday complaining of upset stomachs and diarrhea, but no exact figures were available...
Behind this modest claim lies what some observers have heralded, perhaps overoptimistically, as a third revolution in mental health. The first was the medical discovery, less than two centuries ago, that the insane were neither criminals nor possessed by demons but sick people whom chains could never heal. The second was Freud's insights into the emotional topography of the mind. The third is crisis intervention: a radical and still experimental attempt to try emotional first aid on someone who seems headed straight for a mental institution. Says Dr. Edward Stainbrook, chairman of the department of psychiatry...
...limp through this year without devaluation, just as the mark might squeeze through without a parity change (though this is less likely). But one is bound to ask why. A clean break fairly soon would be better for France and for the world monetary system than living with a sick franc for months...
There seems to be a feeling of some people that this is merely a reflection of a sick society in America...
Charms and Nail-Parings. Hansen spells out the point: "If you believe in witchcraft and you discover that someone has been melting your wax image over a slow fire or muttering charms over your nail-parings, the probability is that you will get extremely sick. To be sure, your symptoms will be psychosomatic rather than organic. But the fact that they are obviously not organic will make them only more terrible, since they will seem the result of malefic and demonic power...