Word: hook
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoyed your short dissertation, "Aristotle and the Bomb" [Oct. 13], in which Sidney Hook so convincingly stated the principal issue involved in the question: Red, Dead or Heroic? For if we but strived toward mere simple existence as our only end in life, would we not merely be acting as an irrational animal and contrary to our very nature as that of a rational human being...
...Jerry Herman; choreography by Donald Saddler) takes a troupe of middle-aged U.S. widows on a tour of Israel in an open search for second love. Making her Broadway musical debut, thimble-sized Molly Picon, 63, is cast as a wily matchmaker who never forgets to bait her own hook. Comedienne Picon mock-droops an eyelid, smacks her lips together as if they were their own best friends, and in the archly mingled inflections of Cupid and cupidity queries each promising male: "What line are you in?" Robert Weede and Mimi Benzell play the romantic leads, and their rich...
...Only Faith. Hook contends that the real choice is not necessarily between surrender and nuclear holocaust. "The only faith that I have in the Russians is the faith that they want to survive. I believe that if they know they cannot survive a nuclear attack against the West, there will be none ... If we surrender, Communism, with all its evils, will take over the world. But if we are prepared to fight, then we may not have to fight, and if the enemy is foolish enough to attack us, then, if we are prepared, the losses...
While agreeing with Hook that it would be better to fight a nuclear war than to surrender, Morgenthau still believes that such a war would be suicidal and "absurd." Hook: "If I understand you, then, Mr. Morgenthau, you're prepared to be heroic even if foolish. I maintain that if we're prepared to be heroic, we will not have to be foolish...
Surgeons, who have been trying for a quarter-century to develop an effective treatment for the commonest form of heart attack-a coronary occlusion-learned in Chicago last week of a daring and original method devised by a young Harvard researcher. The method is to hook the patient to a pump that beats out-of-step with the heart's own beat, to create the most favorable conditions for the heart to develop substitute channels of circulation around the area of the occlusion (the shutdown in one of the heart wall's own arteries...