Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average American is "up to his ears in debt," trades jobs "constantly in a frantic scramble for the extra dollar," and by all odds will wind up in jail, divorce court or the psychiatrist's clutches. "Every third or fourth person you meet," said Coulter, "is having psychiatric treatment. Each big apartment building has at least one resident psychiatrist, and some have four or five. It is the boomingest profession in town...
Farnsworth's report also noted that "greater demands than ever" have been made upon the Psychiatric Service. "This is not because of an increase in the number of emotional disorders, but rather a recognition by the University that treatment of concerned students produces favorable results," he said...
Taken in hand early, glaucoma can be effectively controlled in most cases. For the majority of patients, specially prescribed eye drops will lower the pressure to normal. In certain cases, where drugs do not reduce the tension sufficiently, surgery is often useful. Of victims who did not get treatment in time, 40,000 are now blind and 150,000 partially blind; estimates of U.S. glaucoma victims runs as high as a million, with half of them unaware that they have...
...wrote: "The ground plan and execution of the news story today are as out of date as sonnet writing or the sleigh ride." By long usage, wire services and most newspapers cram the major facts into the first paragraph, then return to each point later for fuller treatment. The result is repetition that taxes both "the paper's newsprint supply [at $135 a ton] and the reader's patience"; it also impairs the readability of many stories that would gain suspense and clarity from a straightforward telling in narrative style. The old-fashioned story structure developed so that...
...only a few times all evening-as in a charming duet, Flotsam and Jetsam, or some Eartha Kitt touches as mehitabel-is the Don Marquis strain triumphant. A few other times-as in a revue-sketch scene where mehitabel, as a dramatic-school tyro, suddenly gives the hot-jazz treatment to Shakespeare-Shinbone Alley is attractive show business. And Eartha Kitt. with her feline grace and mannered charm, is frequently mehitabelish, and at the worst gives Kitt for cat. But the show's plotless proceedings have little episodic lift, the score is unexciting and the dancing dated, and Eddie...