Word: life
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he wrote these lines (in LIFE), soon after winning $129,000 on Twenty-One, Charles Van Doren was sneering at the intellectual futility of TV's quiz games. But by last week, Van Doren's words could be read less as sneer than as simple statement of fact. The office of New York District Attorney Frank Hogan dropped its last qualifying hedges, in effect said that Van Doren had admitted receiving both questions and answers on Twenty-One, as had his successor, Hank Bloomgarden...
...space and modern medical research, and indeed the churches-and so many other institutions which are essential to a good society, yet cannot be operated for profit? . . . Among [the mass communications media] there must be some which aim not at popularity and profit but at excellence and the good life...
...Class of '59) another chance to demonstrate the most impressive techniques yet developed by TV journalism. From the cocky drawing-board confidence of the creators of Juno II, to the unforgettably tense faces of the missilemen when their bird was fired, Biography recorded every important aspect in the life of one of man's most intricate creations. The cameras sighted in on the meticulous welding of Juno's outer skin at the Chrysler plant in Detroit; they watched her engine-thrust (equal to 20 F-86 jet fighters) test at the Rocketdyne plant in Southern California. Artfully...
...long a time has never been recorded.* The conditions looked promising. The severed leg had been tipped up at an angle, and it was drained of blood; had blood remained, ruinous clots would have formed. The doctors' first job was to restore the blood flow, thus restore some life to the limb. Before cleaning the leg fully, they stitched together the ends of the main artery, then the main vein. Quickly taking circulation from the trunk, the leg turned from a deathly grey to a normal pink. Then the surgeons cut away the crushed muscle and skin, shortened...
From the very first day, life is a series of shocks: the shock of birth itself, of hunger, of weaning, of not having one's own way. Most humans make adjustments to these painful shocks. Yet many are overwhelmed by them, and so they attempt to turn the pain itself into pleasure, i.e., they become psychic masochists. At the same time, humans learn in the nursery to fear the woman: it is she who takes the nipple out of the infant's mouth, she who disciplines him. Many persons grow up to run away from the fearful mother...