Word: upbeatness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pages) makes for better reading. The critical sections-books, ballet, music, films-are excellent. There is a warm, highly readable story on Philanthropist Louis Schweitzer, an intriguing discussion of world mass-transit problems, and a thoughtful piece on the future of education. Selden Rodman, the Haiti buff, contributes an upbeat piece on life in the Caribbean republic. A photo spread of aerial landscapes shot by Dr. George Gerster, a Swiss science editor, is beautifully laid...
GEORGE GERDES, a schoolmate and friend of Loudon Wainwright's, has also tried to learn a lot from Bob Dylan, inviting a comparison which is perhaps unfair. He has the same narrow vocal range, which he stretches around the edges. He uses harmonica in the same upbeat, folksy way although he plays both it and guitar much better than Dylan. On the whole, however, Gerdes is less successful, at least on his album Obituary--he is simply not as intense a folk or blues performer...
...atrophy rather than any dearth of happy tidings. Launched 16 months ago by Sacramento Businessman William Bailey "with a lot of optimism and $100," GNP built a fortnightly circulation of 11,000 by listing only stocks that went up, banning ads for cigarettes and sex movies, and contriving such upbeat leads as: "In the U.S. last year, 196,459,483 citizens did not commit a crime." But the paper fell $45,000 into debt. To the end, Bailey never printed the sad account of his failure in the Good News Paper...
...that section." In November 1970, Hovik won her battle; the Star junked its women's section and created "Variety." "Newsworthy activities by women," said Hovik, "should be of interest to both men and women." This thinking is obviously carried through in the Louisville Courier-Journal's upbeat "Today's Living" section. Women's Editor Carol Sutton finds room in her section for stories by cityside reporters; her staffers, in return, sometimes see their articles published in the general news pages. Instead of being a news ghetto, the section blends easily into the rest of the Courier...
Just as poetry can predict suicide, so it can also provoke it. That, says Psychiatrist Jack Leedy, president of the Association for Poetry Therapy, is one danger of the method in unskilled hands. Reading somber verses with upbeat endings can help unhappy patients by demonstrating that "others have been depressed and have recovered," but despairing poems may deepen the feelings of hopelessness. Psychiatrist Rothenberg cites another danger: poetry used only to get rid of intense feelings can keep a patient from understanding and resolving his conflicts. "Poetry by itself does not cure," he warns. But used by properly trained therapists...