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...civilly with the prophets of the Enlightenment. His faith in the dispassion ate application of reason to the muddle of human affairs was no less firm than Voltaire's. His prowess at drawing his tory's sweep from the minutiae of daily events might have impressed even Gibbon. Had they discoursed on politics, he and Edmund Burke would have found themselves on the same aloof Olympian plane...
...love and other emotions among the Puritans. Business will comment on the shocking colonial inflation rate, and Environment on the wasteful use of farm land. Medicine plans to cover the smallpox epidemic then raging in America. One of the current bestsellers to be reviewed in the Books section: Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Since advertising was then as now a part of almost all magazines, this special issue will also contain a limited number...
...Justice John Murtagh's New York City courtroom. But The Briar Patch is weirdly overwritten. Kempton's high prose style often so veneers the drama that even the simple facts of the case become difficult to follow. The language sometimes seems a travesty of James or Gibbon undertaking to describe Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Kempton simultaneously affects engagement and disdainful detachment, and the result occasionally leaves him drifting over the events in a kind of rhetorical blimp, watching the ghetto through opera glasses...
...think Kristol means this to happen, and I wish he would come out and say so. He is merely pointing out the symptoms of the disease and stating that if they do not somehow disappear we will all go the way of Gibbon's Rome. He is exhorting various interests which have a vast influence on the nation's mores to adopt a more sober tone instead of exacerbating an already overheated situation. The particular value of the new conservative writers is that they themselves adopt a moderate and judicial tone of discussion (which Kristol, it must be added, sometimes...
Died. John H. Gibbon Jr., 69, the cardiac surgeon who developed the first heart-lung machine successfully used on a human patient; of an apparent heart attack while playing tennis; in Philadelphia. Gibbon spent 19 years perfecting the device that could take over heart and lung functions during heart surgery. In its first application to a human in 1953, the device worked perfectly for 26 minutes, permitting Gibbon to repair a hole in the heart of an 18-year-old girl. She survived, and Gibbon's achievement opened the way to a variety of heart operations, including transplants...