Word: basse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of fraternal "charity" hardly seems appropriate any longer for a group with such high incomes. But a more telling criticism of professional courtesy is that it can be a barrier to good medical care. For one thing, the donor physician often feels exploited and overburdened. Says Pediatrician Lee Bass, Wolfson's partner: "There is a subtle difference in how you feel about people who get free care in your office and those who pay." Also, doctors and their families frequently have misgivings about taking up another doctor's time. The result: quick, inadequate "curbside consultations" in hospital...
Some traditionalists are distressed by all the talk of abandoning professional courtesy. After Wolfson and Bass denounced the no-fee practice as a relic in an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, it received a spate of critical letters. Gastroenterologist William Haubrich of La Jolla, Calif., protested that proffering a bill to a fellow doctor smacks of commercialism and erodes the strong feelings of fraternalism in the medical community. Oklahoma City Internist Ernest Warner Jr. added: "One of the greatest honors one can receive is to be asked by a fellow physician to care...
...opening-night audience greeted all this with a mixed but emphatic response. There were cheers for the buoyant conducting of James Levine and the splendid ensemble of Soprano Carol Neblett Tenor William Lewis, Bass-Baritone José van Dam and Bass Paul Plishka. The applause for Ponnelle was mixed with full-throated booing sounds, heard often enough on the Continent but rarely at the Met. New York audiences like their Wagner to be conventional...
...cold war freelance couriers began systematic efforts to smuggle books to Christians in Eastern Europe. Today Bible smuggling is carried on by a network of at least 40 Protestant organizations pursuing the world's most extraordinary missionary venture. Much support comes from U.S.-based organizations, notably L. Joe Bass's Underground Evangelism and Michael Wurmbrand's Jesus to the Communist World. At any one time, dozens of smugglers, both professionals and one-shot amateurs, may be crossing borders in Bible-bearing cars, vans or trains. The Bibles are given out free, paid for by Western contributors...
...operations now seems threatened by scandal in the U.S. Underground Evangelism and Jesus to the Communist World have lately struggled in a bitter and squalid feud run out of their California headquarters. The battle involves a $1.5 million defamation suit rising from charges and countercharges made by Wurmbrand about Bass's personal behavior, and it threatens to spread to questions about Bass's ways of accounting for some of the $8.7 million a year his group raises. The situation could take years to untangle. The two organizations together depend on contributions and account for nearly $17 million...