Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...force of personal intensity and able acting Actress Davis gives her emotional crises a convincing importance. In fact she establishes her character so convincingly that few cinemaudiences will be persuaded that Julie's sacrificial fade-out is not just another foxy trick to get her man, dead or alive...
...developed the art of preserving the blood of accident victims in order to build up a reserve or "blood bank" for transfusions,*eye specialists who pioneered in the art of transplanting new corneas to the eyes of the blind have recently established "cornea banks," by removing the corneas of dead people for use in transplanting operations...
...Francisco last week Dr. Martin Icove Green, 39, surgeon of a busy eye hospital, wishing to emulate the Russian example, asked-with considerable circumspection-for authority to take corneas from the eyes of the dead. Hitherto in the U. S. such corneal transplants have come from living eyes (removed because of tumors, etc.) and coreas for transplanting have usually been available only when a patient whose eye was removed goodheartedly offered it to another sufferer...
...books. Theory of Flight, her first, carried too many pinfeathers to rate its machine-finished title. U. S. 1* the title of her second book, is an ambitious, almost a cocksure misnomer. The book's titular material is actually a series of poems called The Book of the Dead. This series "will eventually be," Poet Rukeyser states, without batting a weather eye, "one part of a planned work, U. S. 1. This is to be a summary poem of the life of the Atlantic coast of this country...
Despite her humorless yen to dress her poems in proud, premature long pants, Poet Rukeyser succeeds, in The Book of the Dead, in giving a clear flash of what makes the contemporary U. S. hard for everybody to take: At Gauley Bridge, W. Va., a hill being tunneled on a hydro-electric project turned out to be 90-even 99% pure silica, of great metallurgical value. Consequences: the silica, for greater speed, profit, was mined dry; the tunnel workers developed silicosis, died like ants in a flour bin; lawyers representing the workers charged their clients some 50% of the piddling...