Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...member's self-treatment has twelve well-defined steps. Among other things, he must admit that he cannot take it or leave it; he has got to quit cold. Members are ready, day or night, to answer a desperate call for help from a backsliding member. Secret of the A.A. help: fellow alcoholics do not scold nor misunderstand an alcoholic who wants to quit; they know exactly what hurdles he has to be helped over...
...dissatisfied Scott patient complained that the little black box was not the right, treatment for her; five experts for the state testified that that did not surprise them a bit. But four prominent Erie citizens, also Scott patients, had a different story. One of them, old Rev. John Keehley, said that after three months of Scott's wave treatment, his voice, cracked and failing these 20 years, grew strong enough to fill the Luther Memorial Church...
...tells the average citizen little he doesn't already know about atomic fission. Of the peculiar terror and agony of the bomb in human terms, it tells incomparably less in two hours than certain newsreel shots of Hiroshima's survivors told in as many minutes. The treatment of the moral problems exacerbated by the bomb is once-over-lightly. Problems of atomic control (Army v. civilian, U.S. v. international) are shunned like the plague...
...attempts of assorted self-appointed guardians of public morals to cut parts of "Duel in the Sun" and "The Outlaw" raises some questions about the entire question of film censorship. If box office receipts are a good criterion, the public rushes to see any movie given the thumbs-down treatment by the women's downtown sewing club. The numerous amateur and state boards of review create delightful confusion, all the while playing into the hands of the film press agent...
...stripped of all the shiny trappings of mysticism and profundity that a facile pen alone can put across, the story reduces itself to a basic substance which is, at most, pretty shadowy. It's really too bad that when the Hollywood moguls finally forgot about the kind of treatment they usually inflict upon a novel they couldn't have picked a story of at least some significance...