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Such are some of the bulletins to be gleaned from the second edition of the unabridged Random House Dictionary of the English Language. "A storehouse and mirror of the language," is how Editor in Chief Stuart Berg Flexner describes the new dictionary, and with its 315,000 entries, the twelve-pound volume amply lives up to the billing. Along with the publication, between 1972 and 1986, of four fat folios supplementing the Oxford English Dictionary, this is the most important dictionary venture since 1966, when Random House's first edition appeared...
These and more than 12,000 other nuances of meaning and pronunciation have prompted Lexicographer Stuart Berg Flexner, co-editor of the landmark Dictionary of American Slang and editor in chief of Random House's reference- book department, to proclaim Cassidy's work one of the "major publishing events of decades...
...elevator of Flexner Hall at Rockefeller University in New York City, a hand-lettered sign proudly proclaims...
While the Flexner report was a tremendous help to American medical education, it is also responsible, in large measure, for the lock-step conformity of pre-medical and medical education. The Flexner report, although widely quoted, has apparently seldom been studied. Instead of heeding the concepts promulgated by Flexner. American medical education enshrined his example, like the fable of the magpie, and it remains today the catechism of medical education, the National Boards and forms the basis of liscensure in most jurisdictions, as pointed out in President Bok's recent Annual Report...
After World War II, the second revolution in biology occurred; far-reaching advances were made in the understanding of the genetic nature of the cell (RNA), and other areas. American medical education, having forgotten Flexner's main concept, continues to implement his example; and students continue to learn scientific knowledge by rote memory, instead of the fundamental concepts that doctors need to know...