Word: human
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TORREGRECA, by Ann Cornelisen. Full of an orphan's love for her adopted town, the author has turned a documentary of human adversity in southern Italy into the unflinching autobiography of a divided heart...
...wall. I charged on to the next one, which allowed for the incorporation of empty space, i.e., the doorway leading to the kitchen. Trying for a work full of people, animals, flowers and so on that only the sophisticated could see, I used only canary yellow but with a human edge around the doorway as a playful counterpoint to the hard edge of the baseboard...
...university from an academic cloister to'a mass industry producing society's key skills and specialists. Bigness has eroded the university as a community?just when campuses are flooded with students yearning for community. To many students and some professors, the university is now a giant corporation that manufactures human cogs for other corporations while performing "complicit" war research for the country's alleged militarists. "The college, after all," says L. D. Nachman, a young radical political theorist at the City University of New York, "functions as the personnel bureau of American society." Indeed, once the university is postulated...
...Haskell Karp's chest. Then, 30 hours after the 8-oz. plastic device was replaced by the heart of a 40-year-old woman, Karp died last week in Houston's St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, succumbing to pneumonia and kidney failure. By becoming the first human recipient of a completely artificial heart, Karp had briefly raised all sorts of expectations the world over. His death immediately touched off an angry controversy over the wisdom of trying out the device without further experimentation. It also brought into the open a feud that has long simmered between...
...proved to be beyond repair, it might become necessary to use the experimental plastic device. Because the artificial heart is believed to cause serious damage to the blood if left in the body for too long, Cooley, along with Karp's family, issued a nationwide appeal for a human heart to replace it as quickly as possible. It was a starkly explicit appeal,calling for a person "with irreversible brain damage, good cardiac function and O-positive blood...