Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congress on the Cornea in Washington. First, of course, he tried grafting corneas from animal to animal. He got mixed results, but enough encouragement to try the technique on human patients. Pig corneas were no good because after transplantation they became opaque. But corneas from a large variety of dogs have remained transparent in 50% of Dr. Payrau's cases. Size is unimportant since only a segment of the human cornea is replaced. Dogs' eyes even have an advantage over humans': the dog never suffers from inflammation and scarring of the cornea due to infection with...
More work is needed before fish-eye transplants become routine, said Dr. Payrau, but he believes that dog corneas should now be used in emergencies when human corneas are not available...
...Spanish nightclub acts and zarzuelas sometimes performed by stuttering septuagenarians, Goyaesque dwarfs, and faded, toothless beauties? It doesn't matter. It's more fun to watch the audience, such as one old man who was ogling the girls and groaning "with delight as an old dog does when his ears are fondled." Are Spain's majestic cathedrals filled with "gabbling priests, rowdy acolytes, grubby vestments, candles drunkenly reeling and raining grease on all around, flowers faded or dead, statues thick with dust, sacristans spitting on the floor?" Neatness and decorum are snares and frills for those...
Using these devices, Lennon mocks pompous politicians, eager brides, mawkish dog-lovers, anything. His sick humor is oten biting and percep- tive, and his rampant word juggling is clever...
...ringing of distant bells, the coming of Death, as Lazarus, the whining and howling of mourners and a premonitory dog are all techniques of mystery and horror de Ghelderode has used in other plays. They combine in Miss Jairus with a plot-skeleton which is parable. In the final act, on Easter, as Miss Jairus dies, the townfolk commemorate the Holy Day by taking the sorcerer to a hill outside the town and crucifying...