Word: embeddedness
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Van Doren is the first to admit that he is no genius and can claim neither a photographic memory nor total recall. Indeed, most of his education was in schools that had little interest in memory work or tests, regarded facts as mere accessories in the handling of ideas and...
A large question, "What is theatre?" In his latest book Mr. Bentley, a professor of dramatic literature at Columbia, and the drama critic of The New Republic, has not so much answered the question as asked it. But he does give some answers, most of which are embedded in the...
After elaborate tests had shown that the blood-starved muscle was dependent on flow from a branch of the patient's left circumflex artery, Dr. Bailey opened the man's chest, snipped some ribs and put them aside, then slit open the heart sac. He was fortunate in...
The Boy Next Door. Bill Martin is a boyish, ruddy-cheeked, rangy (5 ft. 11 in.) man, with greying brown hair and good-humored eyes behind gold-rimmed glasses. Looking, as one longtime friend remarked recently, like "the boy next door-35 years later," he has turned the Fed, after...
That is why there is so little left of it. Pilgrims through the centuries, drinking water from the Nanteos Cup to heal their ills (especially hemorrhages), have bitten off little pieces to increase the efficacy of the cure. Not only Roman Catholics but Anglicans and Free Churchmen seek healing from...