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...play, and it stresses what is sheen-deep in Molière's wit rather than what is skinflinty. Still, in a glancing way, the master French comic moralist's point does get made-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Mock-Hero Harpagon (Hume Cronyn) is dead to his children's hope of love, dead to his servants' grievances, dead to any generous stirrings of heart or mind. He counts the world well lost for money. Skittering about like a drunken sandpiper, Hume Cronyn is a dizzy delight. His Harpagon is a sprite...
...these two cravings. No system of philosophy can hope to be universally accepted among men which grossly violates either need, or entirely subordinates the one to the other. The fate of Spinoza, with his barren union of all things in one substance, on the one hand; that of Hume, with his equally barren 'looseness and separateness' of everything, on the other --neither philosopher owning any strict and systematic disciples today, each being to posterity a warning as well as a stimulus--show us that the only possibly philosophy must be a compromise between an abstract monotony and concrete heterogenity...
...grasped the significance of the opportunity. Dr. J. Hartwell Harrison removed Twin Ronald's healthy left kidney. Dr. David Hume implanted it in Richard's flank, and it took, though Richard died this year of heart disease. Of 19 other identical-twin transplants, 17 made a good start. But over the years, three patients have died of recurrent kidney disease. "So now we know," says Dr. Moore, "that the critical factor is glomerulonephritis [a form of kidney inflammation involving the small capillary loops or glomeruli], and that these people have a tendency to get the same disease again...
...Transplant. Now at the Medical College of Virginia, Dr. Hume has begun kidney transplants with modified techniques. First, Dr. Hume removes both of the patient's diseased kidneys, to lower blood pressure and to guard against infection and especially against glomerulonephritis. After the operation, Dr. Hume doses the transplant itself with X rays, on the theory that if antibody-loaded cells are moving in to attack the kidney, they will be concentrated around the target. One important thing, says Dr. Hume, is to get the replacement kidneys fresh. Most cadaver kidneys are. in effect, "in shock" for several hours...
...illustrations needn't of course, be singularly relevant; but they must be there. If Vague Generalities are anathema, sparkling chips of concrete scattered through your bluebook will have you up for sainthood. Or at least Dean's List. Name at least the titles of every other book Hume ever wrote; don't say just "Medieval cathedrals"--name nine. Think of a few specific examples of "contemporary decadence," like Natalie Wood. If you can't come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they have at least the solid clink of pseudo-facts...