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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1950s, Thomas observed that "medicine was turning into a science." The discovery and use of a host of drugs such as sulfanilamide and antibiotics meant that many otherwise fatal diseases were easily curable. A new optimism swept through the profession; doctors became "convinced, overnight, that nothing lay beyond reach for the future. Medicine was off and running...
Human beings are getting themselves, and the rest of the world, into deeper and deeper trouble, and I would not lay heavy odds on our survival unless we begin maturing soon. The good thought I have about this is that we are to begin with most improbable of all the earth's creatures, and may be it is not beyond hope that we are also endowed with improbable luck...
Especially successful were senior Co-Captains Calvin Dixon and George White. Dixon drove for alley-oop lay-ins that brought the crow do its feet, while White turned in a solid defensive performance. But both White and Dixon will graduate without a victory over their hometown's Ivy representative...
...beyond the family concerns lay Bernstein's dislike for the "general atmosphere" of life in Russia. "In Russia, you have an atmosphere of lies," he says, eerily echoing the reports of dissidents one reads about in newspapers. "People say something and nobody believes it, and they themselves don't believe what they are saying...
...normal Harvard point guard Calvin Dixon, for example, made up for a less-than-stellar performance in the first 37 minutes with some solid play in the final three. The Crimson co-captain, who hit just two of 12 from the floor on the night, drove for a lay-in to give his squad a 52-51 lead, then came through with two clutch free throws two minutes later to up the Harvard margin to three with just 12 seconds remaining...