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Under the last heading comes the question of softness to Communism, of which the confused deadlock of the Korean war was the most persuasive symptom and the Alger Hiss case was the most clinically revealing symptom...
Last week Gilbert Godard was busy spending his insurance money on 1) a new house, 2) a new car, 3) a new lawsuit-against the newspaper Parisien Libéré, which called him "a common crook." As an added symptom of recovery, he stood for a while outside the butcher's shop making rude faces through the window at Maigret, at whom, strangely enough, he was very sore...
...known to keep their grievances to themselves. And as the complaints came, ticket sales faltered. Doubtless many of the alumni felt that Hickman, reveling in the security of a 10-year contract he was awarded in 1950, was giving Eli second place among his loves. This feeling is a symptom of frustration, a disease peculiar to Monday Morning Quarterbacks...
Like most doctors in the same spot, Dr. Lowenberg gave his patient the argument but not the drug. Carefully he explained that high blood pressure is not in itself a disease; it is a symptom of an underlying disorder. Unfortunately, in at least 75% of cases, the root cause is unknown. This cause may be a killer, or patients may live for years and die of some disease which has nothing to do with the state of their blood vessels. Because doctors know that emotional strain is often a big factor in the life of such a patient, they...
...urban "masses" lived on greyly in the crumbling cities, without even cigarettes to solace their degradation. Curiously, a leading symptom of their despair was a marked rise in female homosexuality. Legions of psychiatrists, "the new vampires," policed the souls of citizens...