Word: kindest
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...family practitioners could be handled by competent nurses. Says Dr. Leon Oettinger Jr., a pediatrician in San Marino, Calif: "With its heavy reliance on physicians, the American medical system can be said to be using Cadillacs to do a tractor's job." That may not be the kindest analogy, but the Department of Health, Education and Welfare agrees with the basic analysis: it has endorsed wider use of nurse practitioners in medical care as one way of keeping costs down...
...season--despite its feeling of one day-at-a-time caution--has the kindest offerings of any in recent history. This is the first season which hasn't taken its toll on Lynn, Hobson, and Burleson--or burned out its pitching staff-before the stretch rolls around. In fact, the team--with the important exception of Fisk--is in its best health ever. The pitching staff has not performed beyond anyone's expectations, but neither have they backed down. New faces like Steve Renko have been struggling for recognition right from February 15, and they have produced better than even...
...five, he had witnessed the hanging of an elephant named Alice, which had gone berserk and killed a little girl. Justice, absurdly satisfied, has left Leach traumatized for life: "That little girl and Alice were the same age ... That's what gets me." In the essay "The Most Kindest Cut of All: Vasectomy," Crews humorously plays with a castration fear. "Suppose," asks his doctor, trying to dissuade him from the operation, "the woman you wanted to marry wanted children of her own and you couldn't give them to her?" "Then obviously," replies Crews...
Kevin Conway paints a psychograph of Treves, each brush stroke subtler than the last, the kindest of healers plagued with the darkest of self-doubts. And Carole Shelley's Mrs. Kendal - curious, amused, emotionally generous - is a womanly oasis, and like the play itself, no mirage in a parched season. - T. E. Kalem
...composer than he had been in 1845. The expanded bacchanal contains vivid writing, all right, but it is gripping stuff. The trimming back of the song competition in Act II?a bore in the original?is Wagner at his most judicious and, from the audience's point of view, kindest...