Word: sidel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerome Charyn exerts energies that could make a turbine envious. At 41 he has published his twelfth novel, an adrenal tour of Manhattan, Dublin and parts unknown. The title character is a grief-racked, unshaven drifter who caroms around in search of trouble. The quest is professional: Isaac Sidel is first deputy police commissioner, a plainclothesman eaten by dreams and ravaged by a tape worm fastened to his entrails...
...Marilyn the Wild, Jerome Char-yn's ninth novel, father questing becomes a bizarre and moving search-and-destroy mission. Isaac Sidel, the flintiest, least corrupt, most overbearing cop in New York, is a self-appointed patriarch of the Lower East Side. For 20 years he has kept his microcosm free of outside influence. But too many people now find it hard to breathe when he is around...
...woman's aberrations and the progress she is making toward recovery typify both the kind of mental illness found in China and the apparent success of Chinese treatment methods. That is the conclusion of Physician Victor Sidel, chief of the department of social medicine at New York's Montefiore Hospital, and his wife Ruth, a psychiatric social worker, who toured hospitals in mainland China for a month last fall. Writing in a recent issue of Social Policy, the Sidels describe the Chinese approach as a blend of both old and new. "The watchword of the entire enterprise," they...
...drab, heavy-duty work clothes-children, however, are gaily and colorfully dressed-but there is no sense of utter poverty. Instead, workers and peasants alike beamingly tell Western visitors of their faith in Mao and his works, and convey a sense of happy participation in their society. Prof. Victor Sidel, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York, was favorably impressed by the quality of Chinese medicine on his trip last September: "I'm tempted to say, 'I've seen the future and it works...
...experience, and training includes Western medicine and the traditional Chinese arts of acupuncture and herb treatment. As a result, China is turning out far more doctors than in the past. Overall figures are not available, but there are some indicators. In the four decades prior to the Communist takeover, Sidel reports, First Peking Medical College had just over a thousand graduates. Since 1949, there have been more than 10,000. Despite the speedup, Sidel says, "the Chinese are the first to admit that they are still limited in manpower and resources...