Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...familiarity shouldn't prevent a look at the screen version, for this West Coast cupboard saga profits from retelling. Remaining within the casual domestic confines of Kathryn Forbes' original story, Hollywood has wisely refrained from introducing any heartbreaking scenes to remind the audience that this is the most socko treatment so far. Instead, Mama and her family carry the yarn in terms of routine actions and the result is a mood picture of satisfying substance...
Said Columbia Psychiatrist Jules Eisenbud: Kinsey uncovered facts, but his methods did not go deep enough to show whether there is any relation between sexual activity and mental health. Dr. Eisenbud added darkly that some sexual events are so deeply buried that they are dug up only under psychiatric treatment. As for Kinsey's hint that there are no such things as normality or abnormality in sex: "nonsense...
...trouble is, the middle class is too respectable to blow off its tensions by getting mad, beating somebody up, and then being hauled away in the paddy wagon to cool down. Instead, it grits its teeth and swallows its hurts, thus producing duodenal ulcers or harsh treatment of the little woman. All the patients studied were above average in intelligence, which prompted the two doctors to conclude that "the more intelligent persons tend to have difficulties with recovery and adjustment to disability...
...Lynch, the author of "Old Salty," also makes the mistake of compressing his story so tightly that we never have a chance to become interested in the characters. The only thing that can be said for the tale is that it has an important subject (Jim Crowism), but the treatment is naive and the dialogue completely unnatural...
...Within five minutes after the game opened, Joe Eaton, in blocking a punt, caught a Princeton kicker's foot squarely in his stomach. Although he came back to play in the second half, he was in poor shape, and that night was taken to the Royal Army hospital for treatment. A few minutes after Eaton was carried off the field, Hunt Mauran had his jaw broken, but he played out the remainder of the first half. Only that evening did an x-ray show the break, and the Harvard squad found itself minus two of its best running backs...