Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that mustard gas and similar agents might be tamed and used effectively in treating cancer. With singular dedication, he set about proving his theory by conducting extensive experiments that eventually provided the medical world with a whole new concept of cancer therapy. The cost may have been his own life: doctors suspect that Karnofsky's death resulted from his exposure to the chemicals that he was studying...
...Miss Mann was quick to speak out against Hitlerism, in 1933 was forced to flee Germany after writing and producing a satirical anti-Nazi revue, The Pepper mill. Beginning in 1936, she frequently traveled in the U.S., where she scathingly attacked the Nazis in School for Barbarians, Escape to Life and The Lights Go Down...
Died. Arthur Upham Pope, 88, the world's foremost authority on ancient Persian art and culture; of a heart attack; in Shiraz, Iran. Pope devoted his life to studying, lecturing and writing about the Persian civilization. In London in 1931, he organized the greatest exhibit of Persian art ever held. His massive six-volume Survey of Persian Art (1938) is still the definitive work in its field. "Turn back! Turn back!" he once cried. "Look to the ancients. Old Persia can save us-those remarkable people, with their gallantry, their decorum, their selfdiscipline, their sensitivity, their humanity, their productivity...
France is much in thrall to its own version of the heroic past. Accordingly, Gramont invokes, analyzes and denigrates Jules Michelet, the great French Romantic historian whose writings helped to "create" France's epic past. When Gramont describes French intellectual life, he gives a useful though jaundiced look at Descartes, including his life and times, his seminal Discours de la Méthode and the Freudian analysis of the philosopher's three dreams, which symbolized the difficulty of understanding the universe...
Kennaway's view of life itself is crabbed: the cost of living like this, he suggests, is dying like that. Within its own well-blinkered range, the view is coldly accurate, a gloomy midpoint assessment by a gifted 40-year-old Scots writer (one of whose notable early accomplishments was Tunes of Glory). The gloom is deepened by the reader's knowledge that Kennaway died in an automobile accident late last year, not long after finishing this sixth novel...