Word: clinicals
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Approximately 70 Harvard undergraduates trained with the National Organization for Women (NOW) yesterday in preparation for a possible round of Operation Rescue protests at an abortion clinic in Boston later this month...
...style, Destiny is everything Kramer has heretofore claimed to detest -- a nonrealistic memory play, crosscutting between the present in a high-powered AIDS clinic and Ned's childhood and adolescence in bourgeois-Jewish suburban Washington. The guilt he endures, the abuse, the rejection by even well- meaning relatives -- above all the preposterous but persistent demand by his parents that he lead the life they envisioned -- are all part of almost any gay adult's personal legacy. If not always richly detailed in the writing, the moments are staged by Marshall Mason with unusual power. As the younger Ned, John Cameron...
...community rather than spending six hours a week in a course purporting to teach me social analysis? Or if I spent time teaching prison inmates to read instead of trying to memorize the differences in moral philosophy between Kant and Nietchze? Or if I worked in a neonatal clinic instead of spending hours trying to manipulate birth statistics in order to pass the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement...
Because the average person will be far too cautious to risk even a single totally worthless encounter, we will see the transformation of the medical clinic into a kind of after-hours meeting place where nervous but lonely people will be able to undergo a battery of health tests and, while awaiting the results, stop by the bar to enjoy a trendy snack with others who may have the same ailment. (I predict that honey-roasted songbirds will be the snack of choice by then because they will turn out to be the last remaining edible creature that is domestically...
...Kirn's SHE NEEDED ME (Pocket Books; $20) is a pale young fellow named Weaver % Walquist, who, becalmed and lacking direction, joins the antiabortion protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection, My Hard Bargain, plays fair with both the churchly and the wicked -- middling people...