Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thirties life. He turns to the universities to discover large numbers of social scientists agreeing with the journalists of the period who questioned "the dubious authority of statistics and concluding generalizations." Confronted with the overwhelming proportions of the Depression, they rejected theoretical approaches wholesale and set out after the flesh and blood experience of "real people," the "human meaning" that would somehow make the thirties comprehensible...
...other is to fail, and to be doomed." Fair enough. But I fail to see how the depiction of sexual activity between consenting adults threatens our sense of Responsibility. Vizzard himself even comments, at the beginning of his book, "What kind of god would God be, who would create flesh and blood and then make man spend all his energies trying to contradict them...
...Judge James McCrystal decided that all the testimony in 14 related civil cases should be taken on video tape. As a result, panels of jurors showed up at the courthouse to watch a few hours on the tube, then rendered verdicts without ever seeing a single witness in the flesh. Opening and closing statements plus jury instructions were given live by lawyers and judge. The jurors were otherwise left in the courtroom-glued to a TV monitor...
Judge Goldberg made no attempt to conceal his dismay. In a 196-page decision (which will probably become final on Jan. 30), he branded the doctor "an ogre, a monster feeding on human flesh," who performed unnecessary surgery and did it .badly "simply to line his pockets." He characterized the trial as "a Grand Guignol of medical horrors." He also criticized the hospital, which, he said, "has a duty to protect its patients from malpractice by members of its medical staff." Nork is under investigation by the state board of medical examiners, and action is being taken to revoke...
...talk about Russian novels and sex, the Third World and God. Give them notice, or no notice at all, and they will do a turn on Marxism or produce a passable limerick. For these vile bodies of the '70s are as restless in the spirit as in the flesh...