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Labor Pains. She readily consented to psychiatric treatment at a University of Oklahoma hospital. Physicians found her responsive, warm in temperament, of high average intelligence-and inexplicably able to subsist on only six insulin units per day against her normal daily dosage of 30 to 40. After only five weeks of treatment, she appeared fully prepared mentally to end her strange charade. The only question seemed to be how to do it without social embarrassment. Her solution: she returned to the hospital in ordinary clothes after a weekend pass, told fellow patients that she had aborted spontaneously while at home...
...that wholly shrivel mere theatrical make-believe; and as Artie and Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation, and a Judd slowly driven by sexual feeling into becoming Artie's companion in evil-except, in other words, for what has happened before Compulsion begins-its materials permit no inner development. Balked of psychological progression, or even moral catharsis. Compulsion can only-during its very...
...integration issue in the South. To the non-extreme Southerner, wedged uncomfortably between the racism of White Citizen's Councils and the militancy of the NAACP, the words were doubtless encouraging. But with little support in the South itself, the moderate is finding it increasingly hard to subsist on the compliment-a-week strategy of the President...
...unifying two previous committees and setting up a far more satisfactory election system. During the Spring, the Council took steps to avoid in the future the kind of financial fiasco it was to experience this fall: it initiated a capital found, hoping that Councils eventually will be able to subsist largely on its interest alone, using money collected from students only as emergency aid for undergraduate organizations...
...heard a lot of opinions about the life of Russian women and the way they are dressed," he told a French woman legislator. "But the worst work for a woman is prostitution ... In Paris you cannot walk down the street without having a woman accost you in order to subsist. Here in Russia, if a woman works like a man, she is at least not in a degrading situation but honestly earns her living...