Word: human
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enormously successful Goldberg scripts have an apple-dumpling flavor-sugary, smooth as butter, pastry-thin in plot and heavily spiced with Bronxisms. What keeps this confection from cloying is Author Berg's tart recognition of human frailties and her blunt but understanding sense of humor. Besides writing, co-directing and bossing her show with an iron will, Gertrude Berg plays Molly, the Goldberg matriarch, with a full complement of shrugs, flutters, malapropisms and a passionate capacity for making something dramatic of the commonplace...
...last 15 years, Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. has been trying to make a machine which will take over the work of the human heart and lungs during operations. Last week, to speed fulfillment of this surgeons' dream, the National Heart Institute of the U.S. Public Health Service announced that (among more than $8,000,000 in grants) it was allotting $26,827 to Dr. Gibbon and Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College...
Last June, Gibbon reported that his artificial heart had taken over the heart and lung functions of dogs for as long as 46 minutes. He will not even guess when the apparatus will be ready to try on humans. The work of the heart can be done, and done well, by the pumping system; but he is not yet satisfied with the way it does the work of the lungs (putting fresh oxygen into the blood). The lungs' myriad air cells have an absorption area of about 600 sq. ft. A machine duplicating so large an area would...
...Bordeaux University, 70 prominent French doctors gathered last week to discuss the effects of wine on the human body. Inevitably, the conclusions were favorable to wine. The experts, calling themselves the "Doctor Friends of French Wines," banded together in the early 1930s to blow away a whiff of prohibition sentiment which wafted over France...
...century ago, the tiny vessel Brunswick sailed from the French port of Le Havre for New Orleans with a mixed human cargo. Of its 180 passengers, 60 were ordinary German immigrants, 80 were pre-Marxist communists who called themselves Icarians, and the other 40 were communists who called themselves Trappist monks. The Icarians were coming to the U.S. to build a materialist Utopia, the Trappists to build a monastery where they could contemplate God. The last Icarian Utopia, at Cloverdale, Calif., fizzled out in 1895. Today in the U.S., there are six Trappist monasteries where some 500 monks dwell "above...