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...since I got here. But what has it got me?" Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin interprets the Watts riots as signifying "a society where a Negro can show he is a man only by setting a fire"−all other channels supposedly being closed to him. A Charlotte Negro dentist argues that "when the white man says to me, 'Look how fast you have come in such a short time,' he is making a remark that is an offense to a Negro...
...home in Ceylon and said he was ready to sign. He was sorry to arrive without warning, said Nasir, but he hadn't expected to be coming to Colombo so soon. He had made the three-day boat trip only because he needed to see a dentist...
...tormented, he is a man with no gift for life in his own century, at ease only in his dreams of Anglo-Saxon times. In order to recuperate from his malaise, he leaves his London parish for a quiet East Suffolk village. There he lives with his brother, a dentist, who also dislikes everything modern; his brother's wife, a disappointed woman who digs in her garden as if she had lost something there; their son Alwyn, amoral, educated, cheerfully modern; and Alwyn's fiancee Jenny, who has no characteristic except marriageability...
...deposits; the diggers climbed in and out by bracing their feet and backs against the wall. As shafts went down too closely together, many collapsed; others filled with water. A shanty town sprang up next to the pasture, with a hotel, hundreds of lean-tos and tents. The local dentist kept his tools soaked in cachaga liquor; the baker sold bread at five times the normal price; and a small army of prostitutes paraded around the diggings, lining up appointments...
Modern dentistry has come to demand so many and varied skills that the average dentist has little time to stay abreast of medical science after his first years in dental school. Traditionally, explains Dean Salley, "the student spends his first two years learning the basic sciences, such as anatomy and physiology. Only in his third and fourth years does he begin to meet and treat patients and apply those basic sciences." What is needed, says the dean, is better continuity...