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...leap that began in 1945, when a line of people over half a mile long lined up in New York City to buy the symbol of the new post-war age--the ball point pen. Everyone, it seemed, wanted to be modern, and a pen that could write upside down (as well as under water) certainly seemed a step in the right direction. That same year, Harvard got into the modern act as well, as a committee to study the curriculum began to meet...
Semmelweiss studied the data and made the leap of inductive logic. Ward I was served by midwives and had a mortality rate of 2%. Ward II was served by interns and had a mortality rate of 13%. The midwives did not examine their pregnant patients. The interns did examine theirs-with unwashed hands, shortly after dissecting corpses. The agency of infection is clear, and so is the stormy response of complacently entrenched ignorance. In the title role, Jeffrey DeMunn is prickly, volatile and poignant. Playwright Sackler reanimates the theme of his The Great White Hope: a man who defies...
During the debate on Gramm-Latta, Republican Robert Michel of Illinois, the minority leader, argued that Reagan's budget was "a small step for Congress but a giant leap for the country." He placed it in a long-term perspective, declaring: "Let history show that we provided the margin of difference that changed the course of American government." O'Neill roused himself to deliver a stirring, if melancholy, defense of the social action programs he had helped shape during 28 years in Congress. "Do you want to meat-ax the programs that have made America great?" he asked...
...firms, and advertisers are beginning to eye cable TV as a promising vehicle for commercials. Though at present a mere $45 million in cable-television revenue comes from advertising, in contrast with more than $11 billion for over-the-air television networks and stations, that amount is expected to leap to $1.5 billion by the end of the decade. Says Carl Ally, chairman of the Ally & Gargano ad agency in New York City: "While the big three networks are chewing at each other, cable and other technologies will eat at them from the bottom...
...helps to know this while reading The Meeting at Telgte, for the novel is in part Grass's allegorical tribute to Group 47. But the book is also an imaginative leap, and easily accessible as such even to those unfamiliar with the details of German life in this or the 17th century. Grass whisks himself off to one of the many times in history when the sword seemed mightier than the pen. He watches poets' gather at an obscure village inn, all of them taking risks to get there. Brigands and bands of hungry soldiers terrorize travelers...