Word: sicklies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawbreaker and the unhappy lover now pass through [the doctors'] consulting rooms implies the belief that people in these predicaments are, or may be, ill. The concept of illness expands continually at the expense of the concept of moral failure . . . The significance of this question of who is sick and who is sinful can not be laughed off as 'merely semantic' . . . No verbal tricks with definitions will alter the practical consequences, in our culture, of drawing the boundary between health and illness in one place rather than another...
...treated' by the doctor just because they are tiresome or unhappy . . . Only by grotesque mental gymnastics can they be made out to be ill in any other sense. In fact, the stealing, bedwetting, bad-tempered children whom, as magistrates, we refer for psychiatric treatment, are diagnosed as sick by their very stealing, bed-wetting and bad temper. But what can we say about the parents of these children, some of whom also consent to receive 'treatment' for themselves? In what sense can they be said to be mentally sick? Must we accept as proof of their illness...
...Sydney airport, a sick, sad-faced man in his 60s, traveling under the name of Edward Gray, boarded an airliner and flew off for Rome. After almost nine years in Australia, he would probably never see it again. His true identity: famed Maestro-Composer Eugene Goossens, resigned as conductor of the Sydney Symphony, his spirit and reputation broken by his conviction and $225 fine for importing pornographic movies and pictures into Australia (TIME, April...
...Britain, which has completed only one major hospital since World War II, and has a majority of hospitals over 50 years old, lags far behind Western Europe in facilities for the sick, Liverpool Surgeon James Bagot Oldham complained in a letter to the London Times. Said a colleague: "Our hospitals are like broken-down, back-street pubs compared with modern luxury hotels. The beer is just as good, but that's all you can say in their favor...
...would not be possible, the appropriate expression being 'Are we going to change?' "To answer the salutation "How d'you do?" with "Quite well, thank you" is as non-U as saying ill, mirror, notepaper, radio, serviette, toilet-paper, wealthy and lounges for the U words sick, lookingglass, writing paper, wireless, table-napkin, lavatory-paper, rich and halls. The U reply...