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...scholarly, accurate, knowledgeable manner. After them conies a handful which write brightly and amusingly about music. They know little about it, are clever in avoiding the use of technical terms-and might just as well be reporting cattle shows. The third group is much larger. Its members are quite hopeless-drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing dropsical drips. All English critics, without exception, are timid and conventional...
...barefoot and alone from Missouri to an Indian school in Oklahoma. This is the kind of situation that is usually played for a lump in the throat, but Author Stafford never plays that way. What the reader gets from A Summer Day is a dry mouth and a hot, hopeless feeling of sympathy for the boy in his loneliness...
...control methods to fit every need and every purse will become available. Indeed, it seems likely that sex and reproduction will in reality become effectively separated." ¶Because normal liver tissue seemed sensitive to X rays, doctors hesitated to treat liver cancer with radiation, and such cases were considered hopeless. At Manhattan's Memorial Center for Cancer and Allied Diseases, 36 patients dying of cancers that had spread to their livers were given massive doses of X ray. Doctors found that the subsequent laboratory tests showed no damage to normal tissue, and 28 of the patients were relieved...
Improvising his methods as he went along, Gallaudet did teach Alice, and her physician father was so grateful that he decided Gallaudet should teach other Alices too. Though the deaf in those days were considered all but hopeless, Dr. Cogswell managed to scrape together about $2,000 from friends, even persuaded the Connecticut legislature to make the first state appropriation in the country for a humane institution. By 1817, he and Gallaudet had enough to open a school-the first school for the deaf...
...year old son could not handle on a bad day (and I suspect that Mr. Robeson impersonating the Emperor Jones would hardly be a danger to my four year old). What has happened to this generation of Harvard men that they should flee in panic before such hopeless bores as the Fasts and the Robesons...