Word: ethereal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...matters of science such as "Are the Atomic Weights Variable?" and "The Services of Physical Sciences in the Department of Mathematics" dominated the list. In 1897, the judges questioned "The Future of the Southern Negro as a Citizen," and, in 1894, "The Necessity of Assuming the Existence of an Ether." Today, essay topics, as the rest of Harvard come in three areas, Humanitis, Social Studies, and Natural Sciences...
Other landmarks are the Ether Dome at Massachusetts General Hospital, site of the first surgical use of anesthetics, and the Nathaniel Bowditch House in Salem...
...couples the anguish and irony of the theatre of the absurd with the rowdy frivolousness of vaudeville comedy. Through the story of a young praywright (Him) and a fictional woman (Me)--taking place within an ether-dream experienced by the woman--Cummings writes about himself and everything in his life that he loves, scorns, or wonders about. He has an enormous repertoire of lucid complaints to make--extravagantly phrased complaints about slogans and slang, about psychoanalysis and totalitarianism, about cliches and selfishness and bourgeois conceits...
Time was when a surgeon needed little more for an operation than his kit of instruments and an assistant to drip ether onto the gauze held over the patient's nose and mouth. But since technology has taken over, today's operating theaters contain surgical teams numbering a dozen or more specialists controlling batteries of instruments from heart-lung machines and artificial kidneys to monitoring devices recording every thing from pulse and breathing to brain waves...
...opening at Judson Hall could not have been more auspicious; it was picketed by a rival group calling itself "Fluxus," bearing signs: "Fight the rich man's snob art." Fluxus Leader Henry Flynt favors "compositions" in which a group of people assemble in a dark room while ether is blown through the air vents...