Word: fluid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their own offices, other general practitioners send the patient to a urologist or general surgeon. With a local anesthetic, it takes about 20 minutes (and costs from $25 to $100). It does not change the man's sexual functioning in any way, except that the normally sperm-carrying fluid is free of sperm. Because the legal status of such operations is clouded in grave doubt, the doctor usually demands a statement, signed by both husband and wife, that they know what they are doing...
Through his efforts, he announces confidently in the exhibition catalogue, "the traditional division of the plastic arts into painting, sculpture and architecture is transmuted and overcome, and their fluid unification is now contained within rather than combined from without...
...which the son is sure to find himself. All of Asia has been trained in this way-and all of Europe was, down to the Renaissance-Reformation period. Then, in Western Europe, complex and interdependent factors-population growth, technological progress, the replacement of the feudal system with more fluid social forms, the new lands across the sea-made tradition-direction obsolete. How were the young to be trained for the more varied and expanding new life with its demand for initiative...
...inner-directed man were those of production, a hard struggle with hard things: iron, coal, prairies, machinery. Invention, toil, risk-taking and a driving sense of the goal to be won were necessary to meet the mounting consumer demands of rapidly increasing populations passing from static to more fluid forms of society...
...Allen Grossman manipulates six words, cities, turn threat, casement, grass, world, into a poetic whole which is the best piece of creative work in the issue. As for the other poetry, two pieces by Walter Kaiser, from the Garrison Prize Poems, reveal a fine sense of imagery and a fluid style. Winifred Hare has written a sonnet...