Word: latterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have to say that, at the opening performance, the physical largeness and roundness of Falstaff were fully conveyed but his largeness and roundness of personality were not entirely captured. Memory may be playing me false, but I have the impression that Kilty did manage to embody the latter completely in past years. Nonetheless, of all those who currently have the role in their repertories, Jerome Kilty and Eric Berry are pre-eminent...
...recoil at the inclusion of Dr. Michael DeBakey among latter-day hero physicians. He may be a hero to the medically unsophisticated press and public, but he is no hero to the medical community from which he has isolated himself. The medical profession has displayed its opprobrium with dignity by remaining silent about a man who thrives on noise...
...words of U.C.L.A.'s late Historian Dixon Wecter, "were taller by a head than any of their tribesmen, could cut iron with their swords, throw the bar farther or wind the horn louder than their fellows-Achilles and Ulysses, Siegfried and Roland, Beowulf and Richard the Lionhearted." Their latter-day American equivalents might be Douglas MacArthur, reconquering the Pacific, true to his vow, "I shall return," and Ike Eisenhower, commanding the massed D-day armies or winning his sweeping 1952 election victory. But it is difficult to imagine Beowulf getting only ten nominating votes as Republican candidate for President...
...scientists. Though inventors such as Eli Whitney, Edison or Bell have long been acknowledged, only Einstein among the pure scientists held a place in the U.S. consciousness until World War II. Today the roster would be long, studded with such names as Teller, Oppenheimer and Waksman. Another set of latter-day heroes are physicians, whose list would include Drs. Fleming, DeBakey, Salk and Paul Dudley White. Among businessmen, only Henry Ford has achieved anything like heroic dimensions, although such magnates as Astor and Carnegie were heroes to their day. The values of commerce, no matter how much they may accomplish...
...Responsibility must be given the student first for a significant part of his own education and ultimately for the care of the patient, but the latter responsibility must be graded according to the student's ability to assume...