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...American Rheumatism Association lists seven forms of rheumatism, the collective term for all diseases marked by pain or stiffness in the joints, muscles and related structures. In six, arthritis (inflammation of the joints) is a symptom. The seventh classification, "nonarticular" (not involving the joints), is a catchall for many of the commonest forms. Of the seven, osteoarthritis and nonarticular rheumatism are the commonest (between them, more than 80% of all cases). Rheumatoid arthritis (10% to 20%) is the most crippling. Many patients have more than one form...
West Germany's reluctance, voiced by Konrad Adenauer, to accept a military draft is but a symptom, though an important one, of feelings in France and Holland. Adenauer reasons that if America can afford to institute a manpower cut that will spell pulling out of our European bases, Germany need not meet its violently unpopular quota of 500,000 men in arms...
...Whitney Museum. Typically, Wight feels embarrassed by his varied successes. "Idon't kid myself " he says in his customary murmur, squinting as if at a disappearing bird. "This showing all over the country, or flying all over creation, is not a virtue. It's a symptom of still being too many things to too many relations." It is also, like Wight's paintings, a running struggle to seize man's brief "adventure in time...
...Moral Symptom. Dr. Kinsey insistently declared that he was a dispassionate scientist. A teacher's son, he majored in biology and zoology at Maine's Bowdoin, went on to take an Sc.D. from Harvard and to join the zoology department of the Indiana University. After he founded his Institute for Sex Research in 1947, Kinsey and a specially trained staff of psychologists, sociologists, lawyers and statisticians launched a kind of super Gallup poll of America's sex life. Some of the results sounded sensational. According to Kinsey's figures, nearly half of the American...
...quantitative morality, i.e., right and wrong are not fixed values but mere fluctuating curves on a statistical graph. Thus "The Kinsey Report" became at once a radio comedian's joke and a hard-worked (and in many phases perhaps valuable) scientific contribution. It was also a fascinating moral symptom...