Word: dulling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vaccine has not yet been perfected. Though rubella early in pregnancy has gained an evil reputation as a killer and crippler of the unborn, it is otherwise a mild and almost harmless infection. Not so with common measles. "Of all the childhood diseases that remain," says Dr. H. Bruce Dull of the National Communicable Disease Center, "measles is the one with the most risk...
...childhood, it has not loomed as threatening as other diseases, and its characteristic red spots have long been the butt of comic-strip jokes.* There were almost 4,000,000 cases a year in pre-vaccine days. In more than 500,000 of the annual cases, according to Dr. Dull, there were complications such as middle-ear infections; in 4,000 cases, there was encephalitis often with resulting mental retardation, deafness or blindness. In 400 to 500 cases, the disease ended in death...
Sunday schools. These are not all the susceptible children. But it is not necessary to inoculate every child to end epidemics. Explains Dr. Dull: When two-thirds or more of the children in any community are immune, through having had either the disease or vaccination, the measles virus simply dies...
...stage, another sort of anarchy is going on, the kind that can exorcise those suppressed fantasies of rape, murder, and pillage, which have made you dull and out of sorts all winter. This year the anarchy is called "A Hit and a Myth," and I can think of no one who doesn't need to see it at least once...
...branding a person an "administrator" at Harvard may be consigning him--implicitly--to the ranks of the unacceptable or the inferior: if he is at Harvard and he is any good, why is he in the bureaucracy? The fact is that he may not be any good. There are dull people in the Harvard Administration, just like there are dull people on the Faculty and in the student body; many of them are satisfied with the repetition of their daily jobs and, moreover, probably perform well at them. Like most administrators. Monro can take the routine in hand and enjoyit...