Word: tic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There are too many of them." says James (The Wonderful 0) Thurber. "The trouble is, everyone thinks he can write a children's book." Picture books range from the sophisticated cutouts of Italy's Bruno Munari in Tic, Tac and Toe to the bold line drawings of Kurt Wiese for Claire Huchet Bishop's classic The Five Chinese Brothers; nature shines in Roger Duvoisin's The House of Four Seasons and James Fisher's The Wonderful World of the Sea; the infancy of the human race lies in Ella Young's evocation of Gaelic...
...entire orchestra rose to a grand finale of cannon fire. The Moscow audience applauded the symphony warmly, but not with unusual enthusiasm. Wearing a dark, double-breasted suit, Composer Shostakovich walked up to the stage and took a breathless, jerky bow. Correspondents noted that he was fighting a nervous tic...
...before, Author Sagan, 22, is principally preoccupied with sex. But where in her earlier books sex was at least intermittently pleasant, it now seems to have become a wearisome compulsion to be borne like kleptomania or a facial tic. And where characters used to get involved with each other in reasonably manageable triangles and quadrangles, in this book Author Sagan's sexual geometry clearly has got out of hand. The pack of people who meet at the home of Alain Maligrasse, an editor in a Paris publishing firm, have one common denominator: they are in love with people...
...current British Medical Journal, London's Dr. Richard P. Michael gives the case history of a 28-year-old man who was a spectacular example of the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (named for the French doctor who outlined the symptoms in 1885). The patient developed a tic at the age of seven, was an accomplished curser at 13, when even the reading of Tom Sawyer would set him off on a string of oaths. When he entered the British army at 18, he unaccountably stopped swearing, nevertheless managed to make sergeant...
When he was back home at 22, his tic returned, and he started cursing again-from ten to 40 times an hour. "By this time," notes Psychiatrist Michael, "both his mother and his sister were refusing to accompany him out of the house." When psychotherapy failed, Dr. Michael tried giving his patient inhalations of carbon dioxide four times a week, hoping to slow down the responses of the nervous system. "The frequency of his utterances decreased," reports the doctor, "and he was discharged from the hospital after 30 treatments." Minus his tic and with an innocent tongue, the patient...