Word: sickness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tribes develop among drivers trapped near each other. Foraging parties are appointed (but for the most part are repulsed by landsmen living near the motorway), and the sick are cared...
...essence is caught in a simple story called The Health of the Sick. Alejandro, the favorite son of a large and loving Argentine family, is killed in an auto accident, the author explains. It is felt that his aging mother could not stand the shock of this news, so family members conspire to pretend, through an elaborate series of forged letters, that the son has suddenly been called abroad by his employer. The fraud continues for a year or so, until the mother dies. Three or four days later the last of the forged letters from "Alejandro" arrives...
Gunter Grass, one of Germany's bestknown living writers, told a capacity crowd in Lowell Lecture Hall last night that Harvard is "a comfortable ghetto inside a sick society...
...Even a solid advice article on how women can protect themselves from VD is written by a man. Two other articles are clearly directed toward women, one on the aphrodisiac aspects of smell and the other on male sexual fantasies. The first is old-hat, the second a bit sick...
...greatest part of Miss Mitford's considerable energies are given over to demolishing the third argument: that prisons rehabilitate. On the contrary, she suggests, prisoners may have been better off when they were regarded as sinners in need of salvation than now, when they are judged to be sick individuals in "need of treatment." She tends to agree that "physical degradation is replaced by psychological degradation"−that all the "diagnosis" and "evaluation" are "the catch-22 of modern prison life." A "cure" is pronounced. Miss Mitford suspects, when a "poor/young/brown/ black captive appears to have capitulated...