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...different shows in two different realms ofHarvard, both received with decided approval. Butlast Friday night was an anomaly. Although enoughgroups certainly exist to keep the student bodyentertained--Betty Please. Fat Day, HypertrophieShitstraw, Mopar, Neverlovers, Pushkings, Circusof George, Smiley's Bone, Soma and Toddler, toname few--Harvard bands are rarely heard byHarvard students...
...five forays into different aspects of the mind-body problem, Moyers presents convincing evidence that the link between psyche and soma is more intimate and profound. The first episode takes place in China, where Moyers is guided through that country's ancient medical traditions by Dr. David Eisenberg, who studied there in the 1970s. Herbalists, acupuncturists and massage therapists all tell of the mysterious mental-physical energy known as qi (pronounced chee), which pervades both mind and body and is the basis for good health...
Mori and his compatriot, Kazuhiru Soma, are here as part of an apprenticeship program established by Zenchiku. In order to better understand how American ranches work, and for their American ranchers to better understand the kind of beef that Japanese consumers will buy, the company has begun sending over young sales managers to work for two years each as American cowboys. Beef is a delicacy in Japan -- selling for as much as $180 a pound. Since it is used in small amounts, the consumer prefers a high-quality, marbled meat filled with the intermuscular fat that America's health-conscious...
...relationships become "Love Story," allwriters are Norman Mailer, George Plimpton, orT.S. Eliot, all politicians are FDR, allsocialites are Edie Sedgewick, all academics areJohn Kenneth Galbraith--brilliant, savvy, sexy,worthy of a bad Harvard novel. In the same vein,all depressions become suicidal, and happinessresembles a Soma Holiday...
Ford puts forth the provocative hypothesis in a new book, The Somatizing Disorders: Illness as a Way of Life (Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc.; $29.95). Somatizers (from the Greek soma for body) are patients whose maladies result from stress, unexpressed emotions or the need for attention. Explains Ford: "They turn psychological issues into body issues." He cites one of his patients as typical: a housewife torn between a desire to work and a desire to be pampered. For two years, she had been complaining of terrible pain in her abdomen whenever she sat down. Her symptom, Ford says, was caused...