Word: topic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, the Kur means more to Germans than treatment for any specific ailment. It assures them sympathy in antiseptic surroundings, connotes that the cure-guest has patriotically worked himself to exhaustion, and allows patients endless opportunity to discuss a favorite topic: food and its effect on the digestive tract. Nearly all spa patrons go on rigorous diets, which make them feel better about overeating the rest of the year. Most treatments seem worse than the ailments they aim to cure. Rising at dawn, the dedicated Kurgast gulps beakers of water whose mineral content-notably sodium chloride, sulphur and iron-makes...
...stress is on "world," for Author McNeill, chairman of the history department at the University of Chicago, comes amazingly close to getting it all in. He makes the politics of China or the religious maelstroms of India as clear and relevant as the French Revolution or any more standard topic; and he bites down hard on the grit of factual detail with repeated appeals to archaeology, economics, demography, linguistics, engineering, art history...
...Quincy House the next morning some seminar members are eating breakfast, and the topic of conversation is the same. "Herman Kahn does not want war. These people who call a man a war-monger merely because he is willing to face reality..." General Wu of Nationalist China searches for the words to describe such people, fails, concludes impatiently, "Childish, absolutely childish...
...week's end, when the trial recessed, it had become virtually the only topic of conversation in Britain. A show of his portraits, including those of such celebrities as Sophia Loren, Prince Philip, Mandy, and Canada's ex-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, was a near sellout, raised an astonishing $25,000 for Ward's defense. This week a sober-looking jury of eleven mostly middle-aged men and one woman will decide whether talented Stephen Ward is a pimp and a procurer or just a jolly bohemian...
...convicted, Ward faces up to 25 years in prison-a virtual life sentence at his age. If acquitted, his agent solemnly announced last week, the energetic osteopath will make a lecture tour of the U.S. His topic: "The Current State of Morality in Britain...