Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feels that Dickey's ultimate concerns are not with the problems of the moment. The more enduring, if less controversial aspect of his poetry is its treatment of man's communion with nature, a theme which he handles with an insight that is unique in modern poetry...
...notebook that programs every musical sequence, every lighting cue, even every hand gesture. Even more important to her than the craft of show biz s the art of the popular song. Over the years, she has learned the arcane alchemy through which a tune can be transformed by its treatment. When her warm, smoky voice curls languidly around a lyric or teases it along with up-tempo jazz phrasing, familiar material reveals unsuspected meanings and yields new freshets of feeling. "There are always deeper layers to discover in a song," she says. "That's why I'm never...
Since 1930, Dr. Page has concentrated his research on the causes and treatment of high blood pressure; his own reading of 128/78 early in 1967 gave him no warning. Far from being overweight, Dr. Page was a model of slimness, at 146 lbs. on a 5-ft. 10½-in. frame. He had never gorged himself on marbled steaks and pie à la mode, and since 1959 had spartanized his diet to approximately that used in his own DietHeart Study. Dr. Page was a moderate social drinker. He smoked scarcely half a pack a day. He tried to maintain...
...very effective. The march on the Pentagon only a few days before Dow came to Harvard may have been perversely satisfying to students who wanted the Federal troops and police to over-react. Unfortunately it did little to increase antiwar sentiment among voters. The Washington veterans' bitterness at the treatment they got that bloody weekend, compounded by their unrelieved frustration, undoubtedly affected what went on in Mallinckrodt's hallway...
...pure form, and a new Mickey Spillaine is not pleasant going, precisely because it has roughly the same significance as a fresh mass murder. The best books of the type offer symptomology, diagnosis, and like most good physicians (and all great works of art), a tentative prescription for treatment. Among living crime novelists, Ross MacDonald is simply the best of the best...