Word: treat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Treat me like a fool...
...whom they are not asked to have opinions, or Vardis Fisher of whom nobody has ever heard, or Norman Mailer, about whom nobody gives a damn. But most of all they should stop reading the opinions of Wilsons and Trillings, and start following their example. In award, they should treat them as artists, not connoisseurs
...more personnel. The average daily expenditure for each state mental patient has risen since 1945 from $1.06 to $3.26, the ratio of employees to patients from one for every 6.8 to one for every 3.6. Though these figures are still woefully low, the rise has made it possible to treat more patients rather than just maintain them. With the impact of the tranquilizer drugs to help, many top state mental hospitals last year were discharging from 65% to 80% of first admissions. The committee's forecast: the trend will continue...
...Play in Manhattan A Clearing in the Woods (by Arthur Laurents) found a fairly new way to treat a neurotic woman. The treatment-which was theatrical, not medical, and consisted of physically landscaping her troubled mind and fleshing her ugly memories-was unsuccessful, as it was basically unwise. But in a flabby season, at least Playwright Laurents (The Time of the Cuckoo) attempted something provocative and at times achieved something striking; and Kim Stanley (Bus Stop) was frequently brilliant in a taxing role...
Those who are not well organized emotionally, said Dr. Bowes, "will treat their hi-fi set as the emotionally immature treat a car-as an expression of aggression, as a power symbol." To many it has a sexual connotation: addicts may be seeking a "sterile reproduction without biological bother," and in extreme cases, a record collection becomes a "symbolic harem." Significantly, says Psychiatrist Bowes (married, no children), an addict's wife almost always demands that the volume be turned down: "Perhaps in the male's interest in hi-fi she senses a rival, as shrill and discordant...