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...years ago, he recalls, that it left him with a lasting sense of esthetic deprivation-a fact that probably accounts for the almost pretty profusion of colors in his present canvases. After studying at Chicago's Art Institute, where he was most influenced by the Postimpressionist collection, he found no galleries in which to display his work...
...Aronow, have given it considerable impetus with their exhaustive, 884-page study, Principles of Drug Action (Hoeber Medical Division of Harper & Row). The differences among patients in their reactions to drugs may be caused by race, individual heredity, personal idiosyncrasy, or allergic reaction. Enzyme deficiencies and abnormal hemoglobins are found among Negroes and some Mediterranean peoples. In as many as 10% of Negro males, normal doses of the antimalarial drug primaquine will precipitate an acute and potentially fatal blood-destroying anemia. Many individuals with this peculiarity are almost equally sensitive to sulfas and several other drugs...
...common drug reactions involves isoniazid, the most widely used drug against tuberculosis. One of the rarer reactions is found among victims of porphyria (see following story), who suffer acute attacks if they take barbiturates; they may also be sensitive to the sulfas. At the opposite end of the reaction scale, some victims of an unusual form of rickets need more than 1,000 times the normal quantity of vitamin D before they respond...
Actually, only a few hundred militant students, perhaps 1,000, have found jobs in parking lots, factories and warehouses, where they are trying to put across their message in talks with small groups and individuals. Their reception has been cool, if not hostile; most of the industrial workers have no patience with revolutionary jargon and little sympathy for comparatively privileged college students who spout it. The president of the Brewery Workers Union, Karl F. Feller, says: "A well-placed fist could be the welcome that awaits S.D.S. revolutionaries," and a Chicago United Automobile Workers' spokesman says, "Those kids couldn...
...asks Daughter Nathalie, "did Babel leave The Jewess unfinished?" Was it because, as she suggests, he could not resolve in himself the conflict he hoped to portray in Boris? The slim hope remains that a completed variation of the manuscript may yet be found. The Jewess has never been published in Russia, and it is not difficult to see why. In a nation where anti-Semitism and the assimilation of minorities are sensitive issues, this tale is bound to cause embarrassment. Babel's name may have been rehabilitated, but some of his work remains incorrigible...