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...doctors in Brantford, Ont., the mark was the identifying surface symptom of a rare and frightening condition called the Sturge-Weber syndrome. The stains are caused by an excessive growth of blood vessels, and those in the skin are matched by others under the scalp and on the surface of the brain. In a few weeks, or at most months, a child with such a mark develops disabling seizures and convulsions. Even if these can be controlled by drugs, the dosage must be so heavy that by the time he is ten or twelve he will be oversedated...
...somehow very much a symptom of the problem that the Crimson is able to speak with the President of Harvard College about the housing crisis but that the people of Cambridge and this Housing Convention are not. It is also worth noting the difference in M.I.T.'s response to our request for a meeting. The Coordinating Committee is now arranging with Dr. Killian a meeting to discuss the substantial issues raised by the resolutions with him. We simply want to see Harvard begin to assume its responsibilities and begin to act, immediately and decisively and constructively, to solve the crisis...
...killing of Kennedy was horrifying in itself and forever haunting to all who had suffered through the earlier agony. Yet for all the pain and shame, in retrospect it could hardly be construed in itself as a new symptom of any intrinsically American malaise. "Violence," said Columbia University Sociologist Daniel Bell, "flows and ebbs, and I shy away from easy generalizations such as the country is sick...
...more symptom of this nation's rapidly spreading cancer is the addition of some 30,000 more troops to the riot-control brigades in Washington, D.C., in preparation for the Poor People's March [May 3]. It is very sad that this country's attitude, and especially the attitude of Congress, has been completely negative toward this demonstration, even before the Rev. Abernathy presents his requests. An avalanche of legislation is needed and it will only begin to right the wrongs to the poor people of this country. But my fellow Americans, following in the footsteps...
Prudence can achieve its ends in a less dogmatic fashion by treating the creative act as a purely intellectual one, an exercise in homeopathism in which noxious vapors are conducted into the chambers of the healthy to produce in them in mild form the symptom of disease. Poetry becomes not the hallucinations of passions or wishes but the hallucination of having wishes or passions. The most awful themes can thus be considered with a grotesque and unfaltering sincerity. Observe Elise N. Rosenhaupt on the hobby-horse of the mind-body duality...