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...critical articles, both ambitions in intent, flounder on the problem of epistemology in modern literature. Any estimate of Roger Shattuck's Retreat and Return must be to some extent unfair, for it is only a brief extract from his forthcoming book. However his broad classifications seem to bury many ramifications and nuances in the authors he discusses. That the literature of his period is "self-reflexive" is sufficiently explicit in the sources themselves. But a definition of the myriad meanings of this term would seem to be the critic's task, as well as a search for underlying motivations...
...Derived from the root of the snakeroot shrub, Rauwolfia serpentina, crude extracts of which have been used for 3,000 years by India's medicine men. The late Mohandas Gandhi took such an extract as a tranquilizer...
...Hadacol (TIME, Sept. 10, 1951), is open for business again with a new vitamin-and-alcohol cure-all he calls Karyon ($1.25 for a 7-oz bottle). Compared to bad-tasting Hadacol, says Medicine Man LeBlanc, "this has a very classy taste. We've flavored it with lemon extract...
Many Unknowns. Researchers reported many promising new things for the continuing fight against TB: a drug which is related to isoniazid, and looks just as good; a powdered extract of bacilli to make a vaccine which compares with BCG; better understanding of the need for vitamins A and C in treating patients. But the dominant tone of the meetings was a harshly realistic note sounded by the Rockefeller Institute's famed Bacteriologist Rene Jules Dubos...
...speech contained a major surprise. Coolly blaming Argentina's meager development of its oil resources on the conservation policies of his opposition when it held power, Nationalist Perón announced that he was going to let foreigners "extract oil and Deliver it to us." When the producer gets the oil out, Perón VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT TEISAIRE Also a vote from Eva Perón. explained, "I will come and say 'Hey! Hold on, boy. Now it's mine!' He will say it cost him money . . . Then I will pay him what...