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...enter into the mysterious personality from which the poems came, as well as the problem of why the poems were so few, it is necessary not only to know Crane but to know his divorced parents as well. His father, a successful self-made candy manufacturer, was the inventor of Life Savers; his mother, unhappy, nervous, was preternaturally possessive. Crane and each of his parents, Unterecker explains, "concerned with immense problems, anxiously kept them from the other two." Yet each kept "guessing and misunderstanding the motives and actions of the others." To know this trio requires reproducing hundreds of letters...
...psychiatry. Azrin contends that "the promise that these techniques have shown in the mental hospital justifies their being tried out in every other area." In his more whimsical moments, Azrin likes to think that behavior therapy will eventually follow the paradigm of progress once proposed by Charles F. Kettering, inventor of the first successful electric automobile self-starter. "First they tell you you're wrong, and they can prove it," said Kettering. "Then they tell you you're right, but it's not important. Then they tell you it's important, but they've known...
...Buckminster Fuller, D.F.A., inventor...
...soon will artificial hearts-or even temporary assist devices to do the work of the main pumping chamber-become generally available? That is still problematical. The University of Utah's Dr. Willem J. Kolff, inventor of the artificial kidney and an early artificial heart researcher, complained in Los Angeles that cardiologists are reluctant to try the devices "because anything artificial is looked upon with suspicion." He predicted that physicians would revise their thinking when they realize that the familiar heart drugs, in which they put great confidence today, cannot save patients whom an artificial heart might keep alive...
...rents and dispossess working people (at an enormous profit). Harvard allows military recruiters free run of the campus, and specifically, the three ROTC programs, dating back to 1916, are among the oldest in the country. Harvard also gets government research contracts for a variety of purposes (Louis Fieser, the inventor of napalm, is a professor at Harvard), not to mention the fact that it permits CIA agents to take graduate courses at the East Asian Research Center--fortunately, the CIA men are only interested in getting inculcated with the values of a "liberal education"! Harvard also allows recruiters from various...