Word: tics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Playwright Friel never stopwatches a line, and he has a rhetorical tic. Talk may be the crust of drama, but it can never be the core...
...Players last year (TIME, March 18), encourages all of its players to take on as many solo engagements as they feel they can possibly handle. Says Leinsdorf: "This is very important for the morale of the players who want to keep, and have every right to keep, their artis tic identity...
From its headquarters in a converted yeast factory in New York's Greenwich Village, the staff of Bank Street College of Education views the nation's scholas tic trends with a certain justifiable smugness. Bank Street itself has for many years been a yeasty factor in one of U.S. education's newest preoccupations: the preschool teaching of young children. Now observing its 50th anniversary, the college suddenly finds its expertise in great demand...
Just about everyone swears on occasion. But some people are cursed with a pathological need to curse-and uncontrollably shout obscenities every few minutes. Accompanied by a violent muscular tic, their singular malady is called the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome for the French neurologist who first described it in 1884. The disease is rare, but its smutty symptoms turn its victims into social pariahs, and sometimes the psychological disorder leads them to mental institutions...
Investigators strongly suspect that the tic is neurotic in origin, related to the venting of aggression. Beginning in children as muscular twitches, the La Tourette syndrome gradually progresses to grunts and finally foul shouting. Doctors have tried everything from psychotherapy to sedatives and carbon dioxide inhalation, which is akin to a form of shock therapy. Lasting cures have proved as rare as the disease, but Psychologist David F. Clark now reports in the British Journal of Psychiatry that the treatment is contained in the symptoms...