Word: programming
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Suicide Attempts. Miracle or no, Neurotics Anonymous, a nonprofit self-help program for the emotionally disturbed, can justly claim a modest success. It was founded six years ago by Grover Boydston, a Florida psychologist who, like all members, is generally known by first name only. N.A. now has 5,000 members in 250 chapters from Hollywood to Haifa. As with nearly everything else about N.A., the figures must be taken on faith. Noses are casually counted, and any member can open a new chapter of the group any time he cares...
Grover claims the same "cure" rate as A.A.-70%. In an exuberant mood, he will raise that percentage to 100%, arguing that "the program never fails for anyone who follows it." He can recite the usual dramatic case histories -like that of Elly, a housewife who joined N.A. after 13 years in futile psychiatric treatment. A few months later she filled a salad bowl with her collection of tranquilizers, sleeping pills and other drugs and flushed them all down the toilet...
...Wishful thinking may well account for some of the impressive results that N.A. claims. The organization defines the neurotic as "any person whose emotions interfere with his functioning in any way to any degree whatsoever as recognized by him" -a definition unscientific enough to horrify formal psychotherapists. Hence the program tends to attract people who want to believe that emotional problems are as correctable as a toothache-a comparison frequently drawn by N.A. members. "You have to keep going back to the dentist if you want to take good care of your teeth," says Grover. No one "graduates" from...
...both sexes from the University of Massachusetts-all within a twelve-mile radius of Amherst. Having taken their objectives, they issued demands for increased black enrollment at the schools-whose nearly 25,000 students now include only 650 blacks. They also called for complete control of a black-studies program that will enroll students from their four colleges, along with some from Hampshire College, a new school that will open four miles from Amherst next fall. "Innumerable meetings and countless proposals," complained a black spokesman over the radio, "have continually frustrated our efforts to determine the reality of our presence...
...exclaims: "Instead of just existing, we're going to teach you how to live! We're going to get the toxins out of your system, burn off the fat and redistribute the muscle factor. It's gorgeous!" BUTT KICKING. First on your Personalized Toning-Up Program is a spin in the Roman pool. As you bask in the hot, healing waters, a gentleman technician offers cups of dietetic lemonade. Your poolmate, a balding man in his 50s, introduces himself. La Costa tones up such famous figures as Rod Steiger, Ambassador John Lodge, NBC President Julian Goodman. Gore...