Word: boatman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soldier. Men who know how to employ ruse, the traditional weapon of the weak against the strong, are particularly admired. A famous Chinese story describes how a poet wrote a novel considered dangerous by the Emperor and was summoned to court to be punished; he bribed the boatman to travel as slowly as possible, and by the time he arrived, he had written a new novel so fantastic that the Emperor decided he must be insane and spared his life. To many Chinese, that poet is more of a hero than is a conquering general...
...Greatest Story Never Told. The villains are the editors, the heroes us. In the meantime, I plead guilty to the following: in Casablanca, the Moor the merrier; at the Berlin Wall, the best things in life are flee; Adenauer is der Alter Ego; and Khrushchev was the Vulgar Boatman...
...Hamptons, the Russians and the Poles prefer to drink their vodka "neat." I recently tried to concoct a truly Russian mixed drink-vodka and beet borscht, blended with a dab of sour cream and topped off with a miniature boiled potato. My frothy, fuchsia discovery, dubbed "The Volga Boatman," was a pretty drink. But one sip told me it was aptly named. It tasted like river silt...
...Boatman's advice is slowly being followed. In 1960, few, if any, medical schools offered more than a smattering of instruction in medical technology. Now a dozen institutions are reaching for help from nearby technical schools. And they are training a whole new breed of surgeons. Working along with engineers and scientists, says Dr. Boatman, these men will develop new techniques-for heart trouble, strokes, cancer-the list is endless...
...will develop very sophisticated capabilities of repair," promises Boatman. Mechanical hearts, pacemakers powered by the body's own energy systems, implanted television eyes for the blind, even hospitals in gravityless, germless space-all such things seem possible now that medical men are beginning to take full advantage of the expanding skills of modern technology...