Word: cos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cos now I've got the Pill...
Douglas Campbell Cos Cob, Conn...
BROMELL'S CHOICE of thoughts is spare and economical, but nearly always effective. The details--the way you can hear the hum of the island's single generator all night in a place like Cos; what a Habsburg railway carriage that has been reduced to second-class looks and smells like--seem just right if you're familiar with them, and as if they should be just right even when you're not. Sometimes, though, Bromell is too spare. His sentences can be too short, his transitions starched. But language and fine writing are only important to Bromell...
...complaint that only the professional schools, which are specifically intended to teach techniques, are doing an adequate job at Harvard now. But even they might benefit from additional philosophical input. Is the medical school, for instance, giving adequate attention to the medical philosophy of the school of Cos (where Hippocrates practiced), which emphasized, as today's nutritionists and vitamin therapists do, the harmony of the body with its environment and of its several elements among themselves?...or is it too much mired in the philosophy of the school of Cnidos, which saw medicine as the exorcising of demons (done today...
...February 1973 the court failed to sustain a Government challenge to the merger of Denver's First National Bancorporation and the First National Bank of Greeley, Colo., and in March it permitted General Dynamics Corp. to acquire United Electric Coal Cos. of Illinois. Last week, in what many lawyers and businessmen regard as a decisive turn in the court's attitude, it voted 5 to 3 to let two banks in the state of Washington merge...