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...then that the intellectual process breaks down, and a meaningful and productive interplay of ideas, which is so desperately needed now, ceases. I can only hope that both students and administrators will never be afraid to open themselves continually to self-doubt and self-questioning-to break the gel that means stagnation and, ultimately, failure...
...return to their original shape when pressure is removed. As a substitute for natural cushions, he first tried placing wads of soft pie dough under his patients, then lumps of a children's jelly-like plaything called Silly Putty. Next, he designed 16-sq.-in. pads of silicone gel, which have the resiliency of flesh itself. Protected by such pads, sores in bedridden patients were not only prevented but also healed. When the gel is used in wheel-chair seats, says Spence, the decreased threat of pain and tissue breakdown even serves as a form of psychotherapy...
...long since concluded that New York is a vastly disappointing restaurant town, and the higher a restaurant's reputation the more demanding he seems to be. Said he of Voisin this year: "The egg en gelée was gross, the shrimp marseillaise was overcooked, although in an excellent spiced sauce, and the grilled sweetbreads Rose Marie tasted unpleasantly of smoke." The Colony, he says, can be worse. Best in the city, he insists, is Henri Soulé's Le Pavilion, followed by Joe Kennedy's favorite, La Caravelle. But the man from the Times...
...sponge to the shape of a human ear and cover it with skin grafts. For men who have undergone castration because of cancer, there are artificial testicles of the same or a similar material. Artificial breasts are now made of a soft silicone-rubber sack that holds a silicone gel, and they have a backing of Dacron for attachment to the chest wall...
Atlanta's Dr. John R. Lewis Jr. reported good results and a minimum of side effects with a combination kit introduced last year by Dr. Thomas D. Cronin of Houston. It consists of a Silastic (silicone plastic) bag filled with Silastic gel and attached to a backing of Dacron mesh. The viscous gel has more nearly the consistency of natural breast tissue than previous synthetics...