Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also begin to ease themselves into each other's beds-some out of boredom, some for revenge, some because they find nothing forbidden, and others because in the past too much has been forbidden. Over the whole group hovers the satanic, death-worshiping Freddy Thorne. He is a dentist by trade, but in fact he is a faithless St. Augustine indulging his "hyena appetite for dirty truths" in his role as Updike's designated "priest" to the tribe. "He thinks we're a magic circle of heads to keep the night out," says Angela Hanema. "He thinks...
...chuck babies under the chin. At home between constitutionals, he ate so heartily that he put on two pounds last week. It was true that every other day he dropped into the hospital for a checkup, and he was taking about 30 pills a day. But Cape Town Dentist Philip Blaiberg, 58, was in far better shape than he had been before he received his heart transplant. The daily bulletins on his condition monotonously reported "excellent progress...
...their decision to leave the official price intact while abandoning the gold pool, the seven nations pulled a 24-karat rug out from under the hoarders. As Zurich Banker Hans J. Baer put it: "The central banks are saying to the speculators: 'Take it to the dentist.' ! With the London gold market, the world's largest, closed until April 1, the demand for gold dropped abruptly last week in smaller markets elsewhere. In Zurich, gold bars that brought $43 per oz. at the start of the week sold for $39.25 by week's end. In Paris...
...Harvard. Everyone plays--faculty, administration, students, and the Selective Service System. The way it goes is this: the Selective Service tells the students that they can only go to college for four years. No more graduate school, unless you want to be something helpful, like a doctor, or a dentist, or a veterinarian, or an osteopath, or an optometrist, or a chiropodist, or a minister, or a research scientist. Or, you can be something else helpful, like a farmer, or an apprentice riveter, or a glass-blower, or the Vice President of the United States. The Selective Service makes...
...patient who seemed to get along best with his transplanted heart was former Dentist Philip Blaiberg in Cape Town, Dr. Barnard's second recipient. Eleven days after the operation, Blaiberg, 58, was sitting on the edge of his bed and swinging his legs like a schoolboy. This was not mere bravado, but was designed to help his circulation. He drank a "shandy" (beer and lemonade) and sang a Brahms lullaby...