Word: glowed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mitchell, successful psychiatrist that he is, is stumped by his own marital troubles. Neither he nor his wife fill the bill for each other, something everyone but the doctor seems to realize. When he finally becomes aware that he covets another woman, the wife conveniently dies and in the glow of his new love the hero recovers his emotional and spiritual balance...
...Brief Glow. The horrors of Beria's camps and inquisitions have been told by David Dallin and Boris Nicolaevsky, by Victor Kravchenko and Vladimir Tchernavin. These atrocities are so vast that, like Himmler's corpse factories, they are almost unbelievable. Meanwhile, a smaller, gentler story gives a notion of life in the police state...
...there for four years, brought back to Moscow and released without hearing, trial or explanation. An American was with her when she met an old friend in a Moscow street. He described the scene which followed: "Plainly, the friend thought she had encountered a ghost. There was a brief glow of happiness on the faces of the two women, then they fell into a humdrum conversation about the weather. A few minutes later, they parted on this unspoken note of things it was better not to speak about...
...radioactive isotopes directly to a tumor without damaging the rest of the body on the way. Experimenting with porphyrins, which are fluorescent substances found in the body in minute amounts, he found that they went directly to cancer tissue. Since they stay on its outer limit and since they glow under ultraviolet light, they neatly outline the tumor. The porphyrins could, Dr. Figge found, carry zinc on their journey; that indicated that they might also carry isotopes.* One drawback to porphyrins as isotope carriers: they also have an affinity for the necrotic (dead) parts of a cancer, where radioactivity would...
...ominous Gothic effects-miasmal fogs that confuse the Chief Ranger's victims, weird battles between dogs that suggest the means by which Hitler dominated Europe, thick smoke arising from the crematoria and torture chambers of the "flaying-hut," and the plaguelike spread of the Chief Ranger's "glow worm" agents. The total effect of these literary devices is to suggest a far more apt portrait of Hitlerism than any conventionally realistic novel could provide...