Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work performed their first operation on a human patient a year ago. The woman died, but the valve was not the cause of death. Nevertheless, the surgeons spent a long time rechecking both theories and practice (on dogs) before they tried again. The former student nurse was an ideal subject. "She thoroughly understood her case," says Hufnagel. "She read our papers, and she knew exactly what her problem and her chances were...
Imperturbable and serene, the ideal...
...biggest disappointment in Full House is The Ransom of Red Chief, where two kidnappers steal a ten-year-old terror. Fred Allen and Oscar Levant would seem ideal as the bumbling criminals; instead, both play it dead-pan, leaving Red Chief--who should be the only poker face--to grovel for the laughs...
...this "pernicious sentimentality." Said Iremonger: "We ought to honor our dead by loving our living, not by erecting a necropolis in the County Galway." Iremonger thought he had a better idea: an occasional monetary award for deserving poets. Thomas McGreevy, director of Ireland's National Gallery, thought the ideal memorial would be a retreat where poets and scholars could work in peace-a kind of "Castle in the Water" such as Yeats had dreamed up long ago with Maud Gonne, the great Irish beauty and patriot whom Yeats adored as his "phoenix...
Associate Director of Admissions Bernard P. Ireland says that the college seeks to admit an entering class of three equal groups; a third from New York City, a third from the rest of the metropolitan area, and a third from the rest of the nation. This ideal figure will mean a 15 percent decline in entrants from the city and surrounding areas...