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...great number of cases, paralyzed muscles can be toned up if they are gently coaxed into action as soon as the acute stage of the disease has passed (usually four or five weeks after first symptoms). Most popular form of exercise is warm water swimming, skillfully taught at President Roosevelt's "other home": Warm Springs, Ga. Less publicized, but requiring less equipment and equally effective is stimulation of muscle contraction by electric current. A large, "indifferent" electrode is placed over the spine, and a smaller, "active" one over a paralyzed muscle. The current is turned on and the muscle...
...Christmas ritual of Poland, the first rising star of Christmas Eve is greeted with the glad kolenda (carol) Wsrod Nocnej Ciszy (In the Stillness of the Night). Then the family hastens to table and partakes of the great Christmas wafer, symbol of brotherly love and forgiveness. Another kolenda, Bracia, Patrzcie Jeno (Brothers, Look Ahead), asks a blessing on this rite (and on a plow concealed under the table, so that the land, too, may be blessed). At pasterka, or midnight mass, the swelling Gdy się Chrystus Rodzi (When Christ the Lord is Born) is sung, and the carolers take...
...puts it together in a remodeled barn on his uncle's Connecticut estate. "We are drifting into an era of journalese," warned Publisher Laughlin. "Let us oppose the principle of destruction with the principle of creation." Readers found a few contributions (notably a peasant tragedy by the late, great Spanish Poet Federico Garcia Lorca, a passage about a prostitute-waif from The Black Book by the English Writer Lawrence Durrell) that seemed creative indeed, many more that seemed fashionably frantic in technique as in content. A section on "American design" was atrociously badly designed. Question: does editorship of such...
...first number Twice A Year published 34 pages of moderately pithy pontification by Alfred Stieglitz; a gustier and guttier five-page blast on aesthetics by e. e. cummings; some subtle war-time letters (1914-19) of the great German poet, Rainer Maria Rilke; excerpts from Andre Malraux and Franz Kafka among others; the studied, furious oration in which individualist Henry David Thoreau in 1859 defended individualist John Brown. Its "Civil Liberties Section" contained Roger Baldwin's On Being a Conscientious Objector (1918-1913)-plus the judge's decision that in 1918 sent Baldwin to jail...
...which the 77-year-old Ambassador to Mexico proposes to tell the whole of his long life. Taking him through his 30th year, it concerns itself somewhat with his boyhood (his mother's War memories, camp meetings, small-town life, two decades of Reconstruction), chiefly, and in great factual detail, with his young manhood...