Word: bugbears
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...While the rejection reaction had been the transplanters' biggest bugbear, a verdict on its true importance must be postponed at least until a heart recipient lives long enough for the reaction to develop. By the end of last week, none...
...there is anything calculated to make a good reporter's blood boil, it is that growing journalistic bugbear, the hold-for-release story. Although there is a legitimate use for the hold-for-release, as with, for example, advance copies of speeches, more often it is a device used by pressagent types anxious for simultaneous nationwide news splashes. Government agencies are prime offenders, and the automobile industry has virtually canonized the hold-for-release. But now and again, some brave journalistic spirit dares defy the restrictions-as last week did the New York Times and its Women...
Aside from this unfortunate bugbear, the performance was very good, with the soft sections that the chorus does so well coming over especially beautifully. The very fast passage work was a little blurred, and the diction is not as clear as it has been. But the sensationalism, the milking of each piece for the last ounce of "effect" has also gone, and the resulting straight readings are more honest and rewarding. This was particularly evident in Bach's Motet No. 1, also for double chorus, a capella, which preceded the Thompson...
...face the fact that they will have to retire. The physician must help such a man reconcile himself to retirement and prepare for it. Suppose you have a patient of 63. You know he has a one-track mind, and in two years he'll face the bugbear of retirement. Do you wait until he's had his nervous breakdown after retirement, or do you start preparing him for it? Classical medicine would wait; constructive medicine would...
Atherosclerosis is the bugbear. It appears to attack the coronary arteries with especial frequency. And strangely, it is a disease of successful civilization and high living. It is far commoner in the U.S., Britain, Sweden and Denmark than among the poor peasants of Sardinia and southern Italy, the paddyfield workers of China and Japan, or Bantu tribesmen. It is commoner among men than among pre-menopausal women; after the menopause, women gradually become as susceptible as men, though it takes them until age 80 to catch up. Racial origin, body build, smoking habits and the amount of physical activity also...