Word: banes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Egyptians tried to cure it with the application of equal dollops of the fat of a lion, a hippopotamus, a crocodile and a serpent. "Ashes of little frogs, applyed suddenly, cureth the Fall of Hair," promised another early recipe. Through the receding centuries, man has tried to treat the bane of baldness with elm-tree bark, watercress, onions, creosote, cholesterol and cortisone...
Nonetheless, Z.P.G. is likely to prove more boon than bane...
...including botulism, encephalitis, plague and a host of more arcane maladies. Trained as a veterinarian, he devoted much of his research to the transmittal of animal diseases to man. While investigating psittacosis (parrot fever) in 1935, he contracted the illness and nearly died. Years later he arrested that deadly bane of budgie lovers by treating bird seed with antibiotics...
...greatest bane of my existence is the secret ballot; I'd love to climb into the head of the voter," he said
Finally, though, self-consciousness-the bane of academe as well as the bane of the contemporary novel-inhibits Stern from writing his love story and Merriwether from living it. They just aren't up to their fantasies. At novel's end, the reader can imagine Merriwether marrying Cynthia, buying another gabled Cambridge house, maybe even starting a second family-working, that is, toward a decent, intelligent synthesis of tradition and rebirth...