Word: succession
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Family life plays the greatest role in Bruch's theory of who gets anorexia and why. "It is possible," she writes, "that the success, achievement, and appearance orientation of these families is in some way related to the patient's driving search for something that will earn him respect." Despite the apparent stability in the anorexic's home--very few come from broken homes--Bruch finds in the parents a deep disillusionment with each other. They are competing secretly to prove which is the better parent. The mother is likely to be an achievement-oriented woman, frustrated in her aspirations...
...bedspace, and they tube-feed the patient, through the nose and down to the stomach. As soon as the patient makes an effort to eat and gains weight, the negative lecture becomes positive: 'You are a deserving person. You are a good German.' And they have the best success rate. They say the patients all gain 25 pounds...
Tully says that "the success of behavior modification in restoring and maintaining a satisfactory appetite in anorexics depends on the age of the patient and if you can work out the underlying stress." Doctors agree that the older the patient at the onset of anorexia, the lower the chance of success with any kind of treatment. The mortality rate can be as high as 50 per cent in older patients...
...learning more too. At Russell Elementary School, for instance, 100 of the 150 kindergarten students are reading, whereas before E.C.E. virtually none could read. At the Warner Elementary School in the well-to-do Westwood section of Los Angeles, Stephen Heller, 8, attests to the program's apparent success: "We have more help and can learn faster." Riles says that E.C.E. "has unleashed a creativity and sense of involvement that we could not have anticipated." Not all Californians are impressed with E.C.E. Some parents are disturbed that children on different grade levels are grouped together. Says Marilyn Herman, mother...
Were it not for the new equal access policy and the resulting 1.9:1 sex ratio, the large crop of Chicanos admitted to next year's class would have been the success story of the class of 1980. Byerly Hall admitted 32 Chicanos to next year's freshman class, nearly double the 18 accepted last year, and the largest number of Mexican-Americans ever admitted. These totals are the product of an intense recruitment effort that was unique in many ways, most notably the role undergraduates played...