Word: garth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BEAZLE: It was nothing, really. We medical men have been confounding patients for years. As far back as 1699, the physician and poet Samuel Garth wrote: "The patient's ears remorseless he assails/Murders with jargon where his medicine fails." Still, physical medicine is nothing compared with psychiatry. There's where we Jargonists truly have our day. Suppose a man loses his wife and is unable to love anyone because he is sad. What do I tell...
...Help Me!" Admission officials concede that next to grades, the recommendation letters can be crucial. "It's an apprentice system," says Nina Hill-garth, head of Harvard's graduate admissions office. "In effect, professors are picking their own successors, and they do it very carefully." This puts the small-college senior, whose faculty is less famous, at a disadvantage. But Harvard accepted one applicant whose unknown professor topped his letter of recommendation in big block letters: TAKE THIS MAN! Harvard also took the applicant who pleaded in the margin: "Help me!" "We found this irresistible," recalls Cavell...
Last Saturday at the LAB, the freshman fought off a scrappy Eli squad and eked out a 78.79 victory over Yale. Yale had the game's high scorer with 27, but Chris Gallaghor with 22 and Garth Royer, with 17, were right behind him. Two other players who helped the Crimson considerably were center Dan Martell, with 13 points, and guard Eric Gustafson, with 12. The margin of victory, though, was not the shooting, but the excellent teamwork the Yardlings displayed throughout the contest...
...oblique, rejection as it became clear that there was nothing but trouble on her mind. The militant matron, whose suit against required school-prayer reading in Baltimore was upheld by the Supreme Court, had arrived to set up an atheist center. She also planned to enroll her son Garth, 8, in a nearby public school in order to sue for the removal of the Roman Catholic nuns who work there as teachers. The first night in town, her car developed four flat tires. The weekly paper ran a spirited roundup of unflattering comment from unidentified citizens. And the school board...
...wonderful, controlled jobs are turned in by Michael Solomon and Priscilla Ellis, two of the inmater Geoffrey Fox shows some good timing as the local doctor, and Lewis B. Kaden (Dean Garth), speaks with welcome clarity and keeps the expository line of the play moving smoothly, though at times he comes on like Paul Anka (now I'm serious: look at my knit brows...