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...Himself. Yes I am sensitive to criticism. One has to be. There are moments when I loathe everybody, and then I retire and read Gibbon for a few hours...
After Philadelphia's Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. did the first successful operation in which the patient's circulation and breathing were taken over completely by his heart-lung machine (1953), variant machines appeared at several medical centers. One of the most successful was built at the University of Minnesota, where Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei had already gone so far as to use another human being as a heart-lung substitute in a cross-transfusion hookup. Heart-lung machines are now so good that at least one operation once rated impossible has become standard in many medical centers...
...this discussion of economics, Toynbee blandly ignores Communism's ugliest aspect-its totalitarianism. His implication: a have-not nation is entitled to totalitarian methods to catch up with the haves-an argument that was also used to justify Hitler. Gibbon, pondering the collapse of civilization among the ruins of the Forum, achieved a certain grandeur. Toynbee, among the groceries in the PX, seems little more than irritable...
Plagued by injuries to its pitching staff, fourth-place Pittsburgh is currently in an off swing in their on-again-off-again season. A fine outfield, and an excellent infield have not been able to compensate for injuries to the like of righthander Bob Gibbon or for Vern Law's failure to make a completely successful comeback...
Durrell is sloppy about his grammar and careless about facts. Thus a spiritualist of the 30s is shown receiving otherworldly messages "from Edward Gibbon and Ramon Novarro to such of their descendants as might still be living." Novarro, a spry 62-year-old living in North Hollywood, is to this day perfectly able to communicate with anyone by word of mouth rather than mediums. But at the center of Durrell's Labyrinth, there lurks enough true humanity to make up for a little bit of bull...