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...Doren, the man who defeated him. ("I took my wife to the theater one night, and I overheard somebody saying, 'That's the guy who was beat by Charles Van Doren.' It hurt me egotistically.") The very mention of Producer Enright seemed to choke Herb with bile. But for all his vindictiveness, his detail-packed story commanded attention...
...deepest Bronx stands a six-story accretion of bile-colored brick, too ugly to be a mental hospital or a tannery. It is the Bronx High School of Science, and it is a nationally famed rookery for genius. The median IQ of its students is about 135, but in some classes the average runs to 145 or more. If training brains is what high schools are for, the Bronx school may be the best in the country; in 1956 and 1957, students at "Science" won a total of eleven National Merit Scholarships, more than any other high school...
...clinic in Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Norman L. McBride took a blood sample, and analysis showed an abnormally high count of white cells. Dr. McBride suspected an infection of the patient's womb, put her under anesthesia and opened her abdomen. Her womb was normal, but he detected bile stains and inflammation around her gall bladder. He opened the bladder, took out a gallstone, closed the bladder, flushed it with an antibiotic solution. The patient made a good recovery and went home within a week...
...there for nearly a half-century as an English professor, Stanislaus was the invisible man in Joyce's life. In this book, he emerges as the perfect foil. Joyce was mercurial, Stanislaus was phlegmatic. Joyce drank, Stanislaus was abstemious. Joyce was referred to as "Sunny Jim," Stanislaus as "Bile Beans." In the Dublin days with which this memoir begins and ends, one belief surmounted all brotherly differences -the belief that Jim had genius...
...like your work?" said Prometheus one day, apropos of nothing except a slight tickling of the bile duct...