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Word: patiently (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kenmore center, at 2 Fenway Plaza, will be able to provide comprehensive out-patient care to 40,000 of the plan's 80,000 members, Deborah Doyle, assistant to the president of HCHP, said yesterday...

Author: By Scott A. Kripke, | Title: Harvard Opens Health Facility Near Kenmore | 8/7/1979 | See Source »

...most of the stands are bleacher-style seating-and a pair of powerful binoculars to use in the immense stadiums. If possible, take taxis, buses and subways. Don't drive yourself: street signs are almost all in Russian and left turns are illegal in Moscow. Above all, be patient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Warming Up for the 1980 Olympics | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

Captives of Janet Frame's previous fictional spells will appreciate just how difficult, for the line between secret exultation and madness is typing-paper thin. Frame knows both sides of the line: as a voluntary mental patient in her native New Zealand and an artist whose originality and stunning gifts have secured a small loyal audience. An antipodean J.D. Salinger, she avoids interviews, and has even been known to flee a face-to-face meeting with her own publisher. In ad dition she has the odd distinction of having written under her real name while living as Janet Clutha...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Diary of a Mad Widow | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

...films have been highly influential to Godard, among others, whose praise and tribute has lifted Fuller to a sort of cult status. Shock Corridor--starring no one you've ever heard of before--concerns a journalist who, in hopes of earning a Pulitzer prize, disguises himself as a patient in an insane asylum to discover the identity of a murderer hiding there. Other patients include a nuclear physicist, a Tennessee boy convinced he's in the midst of the Civil War, and a roomful of scantily clad nymphomaniacs, all of whom give the hero something to think about...

Author: By --larry Shapiro, | Title: Raw Knuckles on Film | 8/3/1979 | See Source »

...Herbert Benson of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital agrees with that common-sense notion. Well known for his work on the physiological effects experienced by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation, he has recently reviewed studies of patients suffering from angina, a severe chest pain related to heart disease. He found that when physicians were initially enthusiastic about a remedy, even if it later proved worthless by ordinary medical definition, it acted as a placebo in about 80% of all cases. Conversely, Benson says, flaws in the patient-doctor relationship may account for some of the equally puzzling unpleasant effects, including...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Puzzling Pills | 7/30/1979 | See Source »

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