Word: finer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...HONEST, one must acknowledge the sincerity and appeal of the dream. Desire to flee the temporal world for a finer one motivated the great art of the western world. The inspiration that built the cathedrals of Europe needs no argument as a possible response to theworld. Yet modern man must finally have learned that such a response is wholly insufficient. Art cannot redeem the human suffering necessary for its creation...
Complex Procedures. Nerve surgery is frustratingly complex. Many nerve fibers are finer than sewing thread, have branchings that are difficult to locate and even harder to suture. The nerve fiber used in an autogenous graft is rarely more than two millimeters wide. Surgeons use a ten-power microscope, hair-thin sutures and exceedingly delicate instruments. The microscope magnifies the nerve enough to make it look as large as a piece of string...
...HOXEST, one must acknowledge the sincerity and appeal of the dream. Desire to flee the temporal world for a finer one motivated the great art of the western world. The inspiration that built the cathedrals of Europe needs no argument as a possible response to the world. Yet modern man must finally have learned that such a response is wholly insufficient. Art cannot redeem the human suffering necessary for its creation...
Officials at San Francisco's de Young Museum were happily sorting through their newest treasure trove-some 200 paintings, drawings and sculptures ranging from Boucher and Delacroix to Eakins and Andrew Wyeth. A museum director could hardly ask for a finer gift; moreover, the works, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries, filled in a period where the de Young's own collection was weak. But museum officials were perhaps the least bit embarrassed too-about the personality of the donor. She happens to be the widow and custodian of the estate of T. Edward Hanley, the distinguished...
However, Stu Finer, a first-year student at Brooklyn Law School, underwent some kind of conversion in going to work for Eikenberry. "I considered myself really conservative," he says. "I probably would have voted for Nixon in '68, but I didn't register. Now, there is so much dissent, and Nixon doesn't seem to respond. I'm tired of just sitting back...