European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 18 the stars and stripes july 1985 columns comments today crossword balancing psychobabble of cancer by Oodman Over Llie past several i have Learned about something called the cancer according to my there arc certain kinds of people who Are most Likely to get this the fault lies not in their cells but in their the big c say the arc Emo hopeless and they dont have the chemical As it to get up there and fight the cancer before it they sort of Roll Over and play this does of explain John Waynes but you gel the the cancer personality profile was drawn by an advanced corps of he connectors these arc the researchers who spend their Days linking mental health to physical some of their work shows that people who Are Happy at work and in their relationships arc More Likely to be the cancer has gone a bit when people talk about shrinking the cancer we dont know if there getting ready to Call the radiologist or the some believers in mind Over malignancy have gone so far As to Promise cures to those who visualize Good cells eating bad cells the Packman others have prescribed lifestyles or laughter in place of its gotten to the Point that anyone who gets a cancer diagnosis better feel terrific about if they dont have the Power of positive there writing their own negative but now at last there is some balance at the Tower of the cancer profile Hast been debunked but its been in the current new England journal of it is reported that a Posi Tive mental Good social contacts and a Happy life Arent enough to help advanced cancer patients sur Vive longer or prevent mind i dont really regard this As Good As positive mental Good social Happy life and a perfectly dreadful family someone with a cancer i rather thought the psychological Odds makers were on my but the Sid effects of mental treatment for the physically ill were the research managed to con Vince a number of patients that they somehow or responsible for their own not by but by living alone or being depressed or not watching enough Marx Brothers they be sick if they haunt lost their sense of that sort of it even managed to convince a coterie of patients and families that the Best treatment for their disease Lay right Between their own they regarded a losing fight against cancer As a personal i suppose it is easy to blame the victim when we cannot cure and maybe that is at the Core of the personality at Standard cancer treat ment can be As sophisticated As Sherman March to the there is no no Salk vaccine for the Dis eases we Lump together under the heading mystery lends itself to myth rushes in to fill a scientific it emerges As folklore be quiet or youll get an ulcer slow Down or youll have a heart attack Stop being unhappy or youll get myths explain the unknown he was she had a cancer but it is amazing How quickly myths disappear when there Are i am sure there Are Many links Between mind and Between psyche and but we know less about the Way they work than about the Way a cell a study like this one puts a Check on glib Ness and maybe even on the next time someone offers to paint a cancer pro file for Tell them you Are a perfect Type the s is for c 1985 Washington Post writers group writing sentences to sound better by James Kilpatrick let us Pray Over this drawn from a sport writers Story of a Tennis match Between Jimmy Connors and Tarik Benh Abiles fighting the screeching crowd of jammed into the stadium the the Tournai Mont and his Connors finally pulled out a there is nothing really wrong with the sentence As it but it might have been improved if the writer had followed the general Rule on the Rule is put the longest the Rule works most of the suppose you the campers bought two hot five cases of assorted soft and now recast the sentence the campers bought hot two Rolls and five cases of assorted soft the recast version Falls More pleasantly on the inner for my the sport writers sentence would have gained a better Bounce by putting that screeching crowd of jammed into the stadium court in last if we want it to preserve temper As the final element in order to put a Little spin on the we might try some trimming and rearranging fighting the the tournament a screeching crowd and his own explosive Connors such serial sentences crop up All the its a Good before launching into a to pause Long enough to marshal the elements in an orderly and Caden cd on other matters in response to my recent request for the most irksome misuses of you readers have just about swamped in Marga ret Rice objects to the use of less when fewer is in Lucile Smith cites the use of healthy for in Little Victor Fleming urges that the word apropos should be of limits to everyone except people who have passed 10 tests on the word John Gibs in is irked by looking As in Albuquerque is looking to get into the Energy Busi Twietmeyer in winces when she hears it Cetera pronounced excite also from Rochester comes a note from Carl foes it just drives me up the Wall to hear a commentator say this is James after what is a this Why not the pure and simple i am James Jones Shirley Steiner in writes to say that my favorite pet Peeve is the but she lists 10 others As among them Are data is instead of data and the use of simplistic when simple would be Johnson of la says that his blood pressure goes out of sight when Barbe Cue is spelled Rigo Pelletier of chides the editors of websters ninth new collegiate dictionary for extending even a nonstandard acknowledgement to that no word to All of you who have sounded off on your pet Crotch my you remind me once More that thousands upon thousands of americans truly care about the Beautiful language they have inherited and c Universal press no one injured in jetliner mishap Cairo up an Egypt air flying 111 passengers from burst a front tire As it taxied to land at Cairo Airport but none of the passengers was Airport sources the Captain failed to slow and the plane swerved off 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