Word: grahamism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a reputation already made in Israel, Kovarsky with his wife, a former Martha Graham dancer, decided to go to New York six years ago. Says Kovarsky: "We had been cut off from the art world for ten years. I felt the need of something refreshing. New York cooks very fast, and it cooks nicely. It has a good smell. What was yesterday is gone. Yesterday's car isn't enough. Today demands more. I will take a lot from here...
...professor emeritus Dr. Graham continued his research. Last fall he was working on a technical paper describing the time lag which may occur between the painting of tar on animals and the appearance of cancer, and speculating that heavy smokers may get lung cancer years after they quit. Said Graham then: "I shouldn't be surprised if I died of lung cancer...
Characteristic Candor. Early this year, unable to shake off the aftereffects of a bout with flu, Evarts Graham went for a checkup to Washington University's Barnes Hospital, where he had so long wielded the scalpel. X rays showed lung cancer, and by the harshest of ironies it was in both lungs, so that his own brilliant operation, now standard in better hospitals around the world, could not save him. Nitrogen mustard, which sometimes serves as a life-prolonging palliative in such cases, proved to be of little help; the cancer had already spread too far. Last week, just...
...many lung-cancer victims' lives have been saved by Graham's demonstration that a whole lung can be removed is not known. Far too many cases are not seen by doctors until it is too late to operate at all, and in many others the operation comes too late to offer much hope. With characteristic candor, Dr. Graham in the last weeks of his life was re-examining the pros and cons of his operation. One of the last visitors to Graham's bedside was Grateful Patient Gilmore. He still smokes; his cemetery lot is still vacant...
...effect replies, in the Anchor Review, that he need not have gone to this much trouble to be pornographic since "in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of cliches." One critic believes that what Nabokov intended was "a joke on/our national cant about Youth." Graham Greene, who calls Lolita a "distinguished novel," has founded a fictitious anti-pornographic society which needles the book's moralistic critics. Harvard's Professor Harry Levin insists Lolita is "a great book, not primarily sexual at all . . . a symbol of the aging European intellectual coming to America, falling...