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Teddy Roosevelt has become a kind of national myth, a Charles Atlas of the body and soul who proved the American credo: a man can make himself anything he wants to be. But McCullough argues that Teddy's childhood asthma was at least partly the psychosomatic complaint of a boy suffocated by the burden of overachievement...
John Crosby was 31 when in 1957 he founded the Santa Fe Opera in the Indian and colonial Spanish countryside where he had recuperated from asthma as a child. Today the troupe is internationally respected for imaginative productions and varied repertory. Pianist Alicia Schachter and her film producer husband Sheldon Rich went to Santa Fe for a vacation in 1972. A year later they started the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. Renowned players and composers now cherish its sustained intimacy and stay together for brief postseason tours in Seattle and New York...
...thousands suffer from less severe ecological "allergies." In many people, they say, these reactions are not immediately recognizable, masquerading instead as arthritis, alcoholism, headaches and depression. According to London's Sunday Times, Rossall in the past has been diagnosed as suffering from a pancreatic tumor, angina, coronary thrombosis, asthma, epilepsy and multiple sclerosis...
...According to Laborit, combat is the healthiest option, but society forces us to repress those more aggressive instincts, thus inhibiting us. "When we can't take out our aggressions on others," Laborit says grimly, "we can still take them out on ourselves." Inhibition, then, results in high blood pressure, asthma, ulcers, kidney stones, heart disease, and suicide...
...meet of the season, a dual meet against UMass, the fears returned. Rogers started out at a blistering half-mile; by the second mile she was running in tremendous pain. She somehow crossed the finish line, slumped to the ground gasping for air (Rogers suffers from occasional attacks of asthma). "I thought the whole season would be this way--hardly an auspicious beginning. Here I was supposed to be their inspiring leader...