Word: acte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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STOP, YOU'RE KILLING ME is an evening of three slightly savage and humorous one-act plays by Novelist James Leo Herlihy, performed ably by the Theater Company of Boston...
Starkly Explicit. Cooley said that his decision to use the artificial heart, developed by Argentine-born Dr. Domingo Liotta, was made on the spur of the moment. "It was an act of desperation," Cooley admitted. "I was concerned, of course, because this had never been done before. But we had to put up one Sputnik to start the space program, and we had to start here some place...
...said. "This is a human being we're working with." As a result of the furor provoked by the Karp case and the still unresolved questions of procedure and ethics, heart surgeons are likely to be extremely hesitant before they try to duplicate Dr. Cooley's desperate act...
There are no grounds for the Faculty to stand pat at this juncture. The argument that to act now would be to act under duress, to condone unconscionable tactics, is a false one on two counts. It rests, first, on the assumption that the forcible expulsion of several deans from University Hall was engaged in or endorsed by a large group; and, second, on the idea that all stages of the present crisis are irrevocably bound together as one, under no circumstances to be treated separately. A student who takes seriously the question raised by this strike, as most...
Phillip M. Whitten, president of the Student Cabinet, arguing for total amnesty, said that "before people can consider the political issues raised by University Hall, amnesty must be granted as an act of good faith to all those involved--including Pusey...