Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...author has thus reached a happy medium in his treatment of conductors, and it is to be regretted that his discussion of the composition of an orchestra was not carried out on such a satisfactory basis. The analysis of the modern orchestra is rather inadequate in itself, but the real weakness lies in the complete omission of any reference to the history of the present-day orchestra, a topic which is certainly most fitting for a volume such as this in which the great conductors of the past and present are so well described...
...Treatment: "Those who have had several recurrences, each more severe than the preceding one, and who are reduced to a state of unfitness for administrative duties should be permanently retired. Those who have had several recurrences and are kept symptom free only by grounding should be permanently grounded. Those who have no more than the initial symptoms should remain on flying duty only under the close continuous observation of a surgeon." Of Dr. Armstrong's 18 patients, two have been retired because of aeroneurosis, three are slated to retire, four have been recommended for ground duty...
...charge, their movements would generate a current affecting still other molecules. Thus, like a row of falling dominoes, the molecules in the nerve tissue might electrically hand on an impulse from beginning to end of the nerve arc. "Clarification of these effects removes an important barrier to the . . . intelligent treatment of nervous disorders...
...pornographic, if treats this study with the frank and simple directness which seems to be anathema to a section of the American mind. Unlike certain of the contemporary dramatists who seem to find frankness synonymous with sordidness it tells its elemental tale with scenic beauty and dramatic vigor. For treatment of such a theme it is artistically essential to develop an intimacy with the heroine's character, and in so doing the film has apparently insulted "good taste." Instead of the mechanical, stop-watch kisses of Hollywood pictures it allows its actors to demonstrate the full power of their emotional...
...Ecstasy" is not an exciting film, but it is a direct and frequently skillful treatment of a theme which is rarely allowed to occupy the place which it deserves in traumatic expression...