Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...supposed to be early in May, but when British Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery took up his post as Eisenhower's deputy for ground forces that January, he immediately balked at the preliminary plans for a 25-mile-wide invasion front. He told Eisenhower, who already had strong misgivings of his own, that the front must be much broader, about 50 miles, so that the Allies could land at least five divisions, instead of the planned three. The planners said they did not have enough landing craft for such an expansion. Get them, said Montgomery. That was impossible...
This tall tale, based on Bernard Malamud's short story, utilizes many simplistic techniques--good and evil characters, sunlight and darkness, and slow motion--to heighten dramatic moments. Instead of creating painfully drippy scenes, these techniques suprisingly enhance them. Levinson succeeds in creating a visually beautiful, riveting and distinctly American fairy-tale...
Historically, medicine did not emerge from its Gaelenie traditions and practices until the mid-nineteenth century with the first "revolution in biology," the recognition that the cell is the fundamental unit of most living things. This fundamental insight was incorporated into medicine by Virchow. Bernard and other Europeans, and became the scientific basis of medicine for the next hundred years. In fact, even today the concepts developed between 1850 and the mid 1920s still form the chief scientific base of medicine...
...book has moved the discussion about unions beyond where it's been for years, beyond anecdotes and on to facts," says Bernard E. Ichniowski '77, deputy director of NBER's labor studies program. "No longer will it be possible to use off-the-cuff anecdotes in the face of scientific facts," he adds...
...race-relations quandary Gov. Michael S. Dukakis has a special task force with special administrators. He appears on late-night T.V. spots in a playground with an ethnic potpourri of children, speaking of "eracism" in English and Spanish. Mayor Raymond L. Flynn meets with Dukakis and the new Archbishop Bernard F. Law '53 in a highly publicized conference on bringing the city together. The Boston Covenant, formed after a Black student was shot on a Charlestown football field, and the Citywide Parents Council all continue to flail away at the invisible enemy...