Word: harvestable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read aloud from St. Paul's letter to the Galatians. "Let us not grow weary in doing good," Christ's disciple wrote. "For in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart." Paul, of course, was referring to a heavenly reward. But another kind of harvest must have crossed Clinton's mind...
...harvest is past, the summer is ended and we are not saved...
...most troubling element of Koyanis' statement is the implied attitude toward the general reader. The idea seems to be that any print version of Dickinson poems designed--like "Final Harvest?" --with the non-specialist in mind threatens the integrity of the poet's work...
...BRIGHT moment in a succession of dark days. "I remember exactly where we were sitting," he says. His wife Christine had by then been found to have metastatic breast cancer and believed her only hope was to undergo a costly new kind of therapy that involves the harvest and retransplant of her own bone marrow--high-wire medicine occupying what one of her physicians calls "the twilight zone between promising and unproven treatments...
...Slamon says he made the decision to pay for the transplant after discovering that Christy by then had already undergone the initial marrow harvest. "We should not have taken her halfway into the stream without being prepared to take her all the way across," he says. He insists that the decision was his alone, and not the result of any coercion from Health...