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...that normally confine them. Famed Harvard Surgeon Francis D. Moore (TIME cover, May 3, 1963) notes in the textbook Surgery: "In a sophisticated population, sensitive to their own complaints and careful of personal hygiene, one rarely sees the tremendously advanced hemorrhoids that are common in a more careless social stratum." But a woman is liable to develop hemorrhoids during pregnancy because of increased abdominal pressure. And in both sexes, some enlargement of anal veins is so common with the passage of years that Dr. Moore views it as "a normal anatomic variant of aging." Piles may be either internal...
...Bunk Detector. What the Now Generation possesses in every stratum is a keen ability to sense meaning on many levels at the same time. In its psychological armory it counts a powerful array of weapons-both defensive and offensive. Foremost among them...
Unhealthy Convention. Critics who praise him-and there are those, including British Critic Alan Bowness, who would rank him as "the greatest living French painter"-see Dubuffet as a major innovator, one who has drilled through to a largely ignored stratum of human consciousness: the images of psychotic art. Furthermore, his work is gaining admirers. This week, for instance, there are three major exhibitions in London, including a full-scale retrospective at the Tate, as well as a show in Paris...
...newspaper."-"In our stratum of society," proclaimed one shaggy-haired youth with a sly grin, "we don't aspire to haircuts." On a ferryboat outing to Victoria, B.C., a Negro student watched a number of black-backed gulls mingling overhead with grey and white herring gulls and chuckled: "We're being intellectually stimulated watching the integrated seagulls." Another boy, appalled by a teacher's professed ignorance about "pot" (marijuana), observed: "You'd sure be disadvantaged in my neighborhood." Trying to "Rate." Many teachers find that kind of saucy intelligence more promising than the studied sophistication they...
...mother, now 74, traces her lineage practically to Plymouth Rock, is a niece of longtime Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell and Poetess Amy Lowell. His father, Harvey Hollister Bundy, was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., but managed to overcome that handicap and break into Boston's upper stratum by means of a brilliant marriage and an equally brilliant law career...