Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Freud regarded anxiety as foreign, unfriendly and destructive. But Mowrer believes that conscience and the anxiety it produces can be man's good companions. Under proper treatment, anxiety can be transformed into guilt and moral fear, to which unhappy man can make some realistic readjustment. Mowrer's prescription: a changed attitude toward social authority and its "internal representative," anxiety. If man's attitude is not changed, he will continue to seek relief from anxiety in such futile devices as tobacco, alcohol, gambling, "sexual monomania," gluttony...
...Treatment of asthma, hay fever and other allergy diseases has become too easy with new and powerful anti-histaminic drugs, warned Dr. Charles P. Huttrer of Manhattan's Warner Institute for Therapeutic Research. The danger is that doctors are inclined to ignore possible secondary effects of the drugs. Such "histaminoid accidents" cause allergic reactions elsewhere in the body, may make the cure worse than the disease...
...pathetically from one tiny crescendo to the next, leaving in its wake the battered carcasses of every stock situation the film's makers could find on the Paramount lot. A picture with some fast, funny slapstick, or even a loud, nerve-numbing orchestra, could perhaps survive such a story treatment, but this one throws in the towel early in the evening...
...great tragic film was as laudable as his idea of how to go about it (filming O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electro) was regrettable. John Ford's The Fugitive drowned in romantic beauty and in solemn unreality, but had majesty of ambition and continuous intensity of treatment. In The Macomber Affair, Zoltan Korda made movie sense out of a piece of Hemingway's fiction...
Bach: Cantata No. 140 (RCA Victor Chorale and Orchestra with soloists, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Young Robert Shaw gives Bach's powerful Sleepers, Wake! careful and loving treatment. Recording: fair...