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...year-old Captain David Ralph Millard Jr., assigned to a 1st Marine Division medical unit in South Korea, had time at day's end to ponder one aspect of his chosen specialty: plastic surgery. Among the Korean youngsters around the base were many with cleft lips. Dr. Millard set a series of photographs of them on an easel, and while studying them he dozed off. He awoke with a start, looked at them from a new direction, and then the inspiration came: what he (and generations of surgeons before him) had failed to notice was that one aspect...
Dionysus is long dead and hara rock has never come close to filling the sensory cleft, but the station will be offering a selection of Italian madrigal, from Arcadelt to Monteverdi, that may capture the lyrical side of mythical and mysterious rites of spring...
Sweet Wine. A fault line had opened in history, and all that had been taken as normal vanished into its rumbling cleft. Total war of this kind was unknown to living memory in 1914. Gavrilo Princip's bullet in Sarajevo destroyed a peace so long and so continuous that every European had come to take it for granted, as a given part of the fabric of his or her life. Nobody in England, France or Germany, not even the generals, had any idea what trench warfare-the dominant reality of the Western Front-would be like. When it came...
...cultivated her fat as protective armor so as never to be wanted again. Though neither of them could begin to say it, they are spent with running from the vicious foxhounds of the world. They are both seeking the peace and safety that Blanche DuBois called "a cleft in the rock of the world," and at play's end they seem to have found...
...lead to paralysis if not promptly treated. Others suffer from deteriorating vision and a wide variety of orthopedic problems that most doctors cannot correctly diagnose or treat. Mrs. Estrella Sberna of Los Angeles took her daughter Mary Lou, 12, to dozens of different doctors for problems ranging from a cleft palate to flat feet. But it was only at the clinic that Mary Lou began to receive proper treatment after doctors diagnosed her condition as Kniest syndrome, a type of dwarfism in which the cartilage is dotted with holes...