Word: ingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...assignment in nearly three years out here." He felt like James Brooke, the "white rajah," landing in Sarawak in the 18405 and seeing "what no educated eye had ever gazed on." In the jungle frontier, he retraced the steps of Conrad and was disconcerted to find characters still liv ing who might have stepped out of a Conrad novel...
...down opponents with less middle depth. Boasting three good units and possibly a fourth, the Crimson will be able to run with any team in the Ivy League and could give Southern teams a real battle. Wally Whitney, Pete Wood, and "Tink" Leroy will probably form Munro's start- ing trio and could be a good extra-man unit as well...
Backyard Ark. There are other self-deluders: the producer whose vision of himself as a healer (dispensing Understanding through Adult Entertainment) sends "waterfalls of vanity pour[ing] through the man"; the elderly German immigrant who is so convinced that he will be the sole human survivor of nuclear attack that he builds an ark in his back yard and stocks it with animals. Author Marcus writes of them with a compassion untainted by sentimentality. Like a somewhat similar writer, Hollywood's late Nathanael West (The Day of the Locust), he has a quick eye and a sharp ear. Nothing...
...Sooner the Better. One of the first of the pressure pioneers, Amsterdam's Dr. Ite Boerema (pronounced Boor-uh-muh), did his earliest work with his smallest patients-"blue babies," whose red blood cells were being starved of oxygen. Born with defects in the heart or its surround ing great vessels, such children are so frail that drastic surgery can kill them. The sooner they can have a corrective operation, the better. Dr. Boerema reasoned that if he could operate under double or triple atmospheric pressure and make the youngsters breathe pure oxygen through a mask, their red cells...
...reported that the soup and coffee were "solidly frozen in the thermos" by the time they arrived. The blizzard lasted for 40 hours. When the skies finally cleared, onlookers below anxiously scanned the wall with telescopes, and light planes swarmed back and forth. There were the climbers-start ing up again...