Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boris Katz family was able to obtain exit visas so that their daughter Jessica could receive proper medical treatment for a rare congenital digestive ailment...
When it first became apparent that Jessica needed treatment outside the Soviet Union, Khaika Katz sought the assistance of Action for Soviet Jewry, Inc., a social and political activist group that promotes the emigration of Soviet Jews. They enlisted the help of Dr. Richard Feinbloom, assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School...
...able to stand again, and particularly grateful to the Russians who helped him accomplish this task. Waldrop was paralyzed after a football injury at the University of Texas, and his doctors said there seemed to be nothing they could do. But a Leningrad hospital offered him special treatment, which was successful in allowing him, after four years of confinement to a wheelchair, to stand in a walker...
...have every right, says Tish, to say: "Look, this is our house. You can both go to the hotel near by and pay for your own room if you refuse to accept the moral code of this house.") Generally Baldrige gives unmarried couples living together sympathetic though somewhat chilly treatment: "If they are breaking a moral law, it is their business and no one else's ... It has become ... a way of life. We must therefore cope with it as such." Baldrige hardheadedly notes that a single woman living with a man should find a good gynecologist to supply birth...
...fact, the treatment of Fats displays considerable creativity. The camera photographs him like a real person, so that he seems to change expression and even react to individual lines. His presence enlivens the generally charmless Magic, though not even he can save the unhappy and unsatisfying climax. Somebody -- or several somebodies -- blundered badly with this film. The most intelligent thing in it is the dummy...