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...variant of the Lutheran General and Chit Chat models is the treatment center that combines group therapy and hypnotic suggestion with a behavioristic kind of aversion treatment: electric shocks or drugs to make the very odor of liquor abhorrent. At Seattle's Schick's Shadel Hospital, which offers an eleven-day, $1,500 program, each patient is taken to "Duffy's Tavern," a small room decorated with enough bottles of whisky to lubricate a regiment. The patient is given a nausea-inducing shot and then handed a glass of his favorite brand. He sniffs the aroma, takes...
...hard to understand a few of the actresses when they start to sing. John Gay, the friend of Pope and Swift who wrote the play, scattered popular ballads and songs through it like arias, with new and more appropriate lyrics, so that Macheath comments on his sentence to a variant of "Greensleeves...
...beget imitation. One skyjacking inspires another. As a result, perhaps not since the wave of fear brought on by the Lindbergh kidnaping in 1932 have families of wealth and position in the U.S. been so troubled about their safety. Though political in aim, the Hearst kidnaping was essentially a variant graft on that earlier malign strand of U.S. history. And the list of possible targets is no longer confined to the affluent. Murphy, 40, a man of comfortable but hardly gilt-edged circumstances, was apparently singled out for his prominence as a newsman and his importance to the Constitution...
...variant of the virus that causes cold sores
...American commentators say yes (TIME, May 28), but none has had the impact of a foreign critic, the Times of London, which recently argued in a long editorial that Nixon was the victim of "a Washington variant of lynch...