Word: graving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cavities & a Grave. Dr. James L. Gilmore, a Pittsburgh obstetrician, had consulted Graham about what he believed to be a lung abscess. Graham jolted him with the news: it was cancer. Gilmore went home to Pittsburgh to decide whether he wanted an operation to remove the diseased part of his lung. In a few days he returned, ready for the operation, and told Surgeon Graham that while in Pittsburgh he had had some teeth filled. Said Graham with a laugh: "I like an optimistic patient." Replied Gilmore: "Yes, but I ought to tell you that I also bought a cemetery...
...rough-edged as a raw nerve (Tarr, The Apes of God, Rotting Hill), he mocked and mauled socialists, his fellow intellectuals, the middle class ("dry-rotted yes-people who are clay in the hands of carpenters"). After his fashion, he gave the U.S. some rare admiration-"a great promiscuous grave into which tumble, and then disintegrate, all that was formerly race, class or nationhood." In 1951, long failing of sight, he became blind, but he kept up his furious writing: "Milton had his daughters, I have my Dictaphone." Poet T. S. Eliot called him "the most fascinating personality...
...unquiet grave of the U.S. Communist Party has at last been visited by a historian who bears no penitential flowers, only the instruments for an autopsy. To produce his coroner's report. Author Theodore Draper, perhaps the most serious and scholarly historian to venture into this potter's field, has hefted a morgueful of decayed pamphlets and moldering manifestos, also remembered to interview many forgotten men of the left. The result is a book which, without exactly being the season's most fascinating reading, will remain for years a source for other historians, a warning...
...applaud themselves. I have nothing against chimpanzees--they are certainly more amusing than their glowing trainer--but they belong to jungles, zoos, or classrooms. On stage, although they fit into the vaudeville world neatly, they merely prove that run-of-the-mill vaudeville deserves to be left in its grave...
...from then on is up to him, and if he has many outside interests or three-time consuming courses, he may do nothing at all with his advanced standing. Harlow P. Hanson '46, director of advanced standing, does not regard the failure to study under course reduction as too grave a problem. He says, "Intellectual worth can be derived from a slackening of pace. Too many people here are tying their shoelaces while they...