Word: dissecting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crowded Students. Most anatomy teachers believe that each team of students should dissect two bodies in the freshman year, but since many schools cannot get enough "anatomical specimens," the limit now is one. In many schools, the number of students who must crowd around a dissection is so high as to reduce the value of their training. In Tennessee there are ten students at each dissection. In Massachusetts, with three medical schools crowded into the Boston area, six or eight students commonly share in a dissection. The District of Columbia, also with three schools, is about as badly off. (Neighboring...
Quartering the Apple. The music is soft, even in its occasional larruping climaxes, and modern in its distilled dissonances, and it always keeps the original tune in mind. It comes in three basic models: 1) slow and intimate, as in My Funny Valentine, when Marian seems to dissect the tune pensively, as if she were quartering an apple, then puts it all neatly together again better than new; 2) at breakneck tempo, as in Liza, where the tune dashes off in improbable directions and fetches up, quivering, back where it started; 3) production numbers, as in Slaughter on Tenth Avenue...
...interested students are invited to attend Jordan said. The films are these which the coaching staff uses to dissect the previous Saturday's game. They are also considered indispensable for instruction of individual players and correction of faults in technique...
...though the NFME's concern for academic freedom is encouraging, it forgets that the money is administered by the Surgeon-General, and that loyalty checks are required neither for teachers, nor medical students, nor the corpses they dissect...
...endless gossip of the lockerroom, where the players dissect their matches with the fanaticism of shot-by-shot golfers-and remember the precise scores of each match for years-several theories are advanced on just how to beat Savitt. Bill Talbert, 32-year-old Davis Cup veteran and still a quick man on his feet (for three sets), says: "Make him run." Talbert's pal and protégé Tony Trabert, the 20-year-old sensation of the summer circuit, thinks the answer is: "Hit 'em harder." Gardnar Mulloy, a canny old hand at 37, says...