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Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might...
...absolutely predictable. My father often spoke of a doctor cousin who, having decided to try his hand at beautifying noses, did a few teenagers successfully and then, after unwrapping the bandages of an older patient, watched in horror as the tip of the gorgeous new sniffer slowly began to droop toward the patient's chin...
Roses, carnations and lilies droop from the chain-link fence outside Thurston High School, and a makeshift plywood cross juts from the ground nearby. Beneath it, a hand-printed sign reads WILL WE EVER LEARN? But as the timber town of Springfield, Ore. (pop. 51,000), grieved last week, the lessons were far from obvious...
Artful equivocartions are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad things is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might...
...these systems. As Nuland sees it, the surgeon's role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy. Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book's vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts background passages. For example, one sentence on cell division begins, "Meiosis is somewhat more complicated because its purpose is to result in a spermatogonium or oogonium with half the original chromosome number..." Yes, "complicated" is indeed...