Word: kemp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...graphically in the form of a giant phallic symbol, rising, one gathers, from the base of mediocrity and human rubbish. Mr. Robinson displays an amazing knowledge of six, seven, and eight-letter words, including poniard (spelled poignard, with which Webster is unfamiliar, on the preceding page by Harry Kemp, described as "a former friend of Eugene O'Neill") and cautery, the household word of course for what happens when you pick up a hot frying...
...Each His Own. In Denver, Bank Robber Clayton C. Kemp was nabbed as he boarded a bus, readily gave up the $11,200 loot, but when a cop grabbed the dollar bill he was clutching for bus fare, he yelled hotly: "Hey. that's my own money...
Indicating the confusion among the lay public and some doctors over what defects are hereditary, Dr. Kemp lists an amazing variety of conditions on which "genetic counseling"-at least some of it leading to sterilization-has been given. Among them are many, such as harelip, clubfoot and similar malformations, which may be congenital (in that a child has them at birth) but which are not, so far as is known, the result of defective genes, and therefore are not predetermined at conception. They are caused by events, still unknown, occurring during life in the womb, and some of them...
Denmark's genetic counselors may recommend sterilization in many cases where they know that the condition is not truly hereditary, but where they consider the parent or parents so handicapped that any offspring would have a poor chance of normal development. "Every case," says Kemp, "has to be submitted to individual expert estimation...
Control Evolution? How well has Denmark's plan worked? Kemp believes that it has reduced the blight of hereditary feeblemindedness by 50% or more. It will take generations, Kemp concedes, to prove that hereditary diseases are in fact reduced by genetic hygiene. But he is hopeful: "The time draws near when man to an increasing extent can control his own biological evolution...