Word: symptoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Levin says: "In the motor centers of the angry parent there is a struggle. There are excitations which are about to express themselves in an act of aggression. But there also are inhibitions, for the parent feels guilty and wants to restrain himself." Cataplexy, says Dr. Levin, is a symptom of narcolepsy (involuntary sleep). Cataplexy may occur when a man has an aggressive impulse which, because of guilt, he tries (or feels he should try) to suppress. Or he may actually fall asleep. Dr. Levin cites the example of the soldier who almost falls asleep when under enemy fire...
...symptom of the atomic age, the $4,200,000 Argonne Cancer Research Hospital was opened in Chicago. Built with AEC funds, it will use all kinds of radiation, including giant X-ray machines and radioisotopes such as cobalt-60, to study cancer. Of its eight floors, two are below ground, only two are for patients (56 beds). Every employee must wear a badge that registers exposure to radiation...
There is danger here. One does not have to see the flame blackened shops looted in last month's rioting to realize it. Whatever the immediate cause of the rioting or the degree of its exploitation by Communists and others, what matters is that the riots are a symptom of the anger and deep uneasiness felt by millions of peasants, most of them underfed, underhoused and underpaid. After five years of hard work to carve out a new homeland, the Pakistanis face alarming economic ills. And rightly or wrongly, they blame India...
...Valente, 47, banned the press from the trial, in the interests of "public decency." Said Valente: "I have watched with growing uneasiness the mushrooming public anticipation of lurid and salacious details . . . The press of three continents was on hand to report the trial . . . Frankly, the reaction to this symptom of social illness is revolting nausea...
Roman Catholics in the U.S., laymen as well as priests, have lately worked up considerable scholarly interest in studying and discussing the theology of their church. The latest symptom of this interest is a magazine called Theology Digest, to be published three times a year, which appeared for the first time last week (first print order: 2,500 copies). Edited by Jesuit Father Gerald Van Ackeren, 36, who got his doctorate in theology at Rome's Gregorian University, the Digest hopes to introduce more readers to the stimulating but sometimes forbiddingly highbrow discussions of religion and philosophy which...