Word: treating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chekhov's Uncle Vanya is a very thin crust of tension spread over a layer of boredom. A retired professor and his young wife come to their country estate they draw to their circle a country doctor who comes to treat the professor's gout and stays to admire his lady. The life of the estate comes to revolve around this trio; the country people are sucked into shaping their once-tedious lives around the newcomers, until finally, when they depart, those who remain can only sigh again and again, "They're gone...
...That was a masterful Essay on the lack of servants [July 9], but you failed to mention what happens to money that might be spent on them. The money goes to doctors who treat housewife's syndrome (monster fatigues and creeping paralysis of the mind), psychiatrists who treat tepee fever (life with father was better), foot specialists who make health shoes with cast-iron shanks so you can keep on ironing for four more hours, and orthopedic surgeons who diagnose and treat commuter husbands for slipped discs generated by aerobatics performed six inches above the crab grass...
...took just about every test known to neurologists before doctors at the University of Wisconsin Medical Center were certain what was wrong: Donald Morton was suffering from musicogenic epilepsy, a disease as rare as it is difficult to treat. And if diagnosis was difficult, treatment was tedious indeed...
...that novel situation gave Shurbet a novel idea. Why not treat his water as a natural resource and claim a tax-depletion allowance, just as if he were producing oil? Shurbet was not selling the water the way an oilman sells oil; still, it was a necessary part of his business. He knocked $377.91 off his 1959 income tax to cover his dwindling liquid capital...
Witnesses reported that the guerrillas took special care to treat all peasants like friends, even passed out some of the food taken from the haciendas. The guerrillas talked 15 miners into joining up on the spot, went away saying that they sought only "to establish a socialistic government with equality for everybody." A farmer who encountered one band on a road reported that three members spoke with Cuban accents. From the extent of the raids, police estimated that at least three bands were operating in the area, and reports put their strength at anywhere from...