Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sociological imagination"--a quality of mind which dramatically links individual and social reality. Born in a land of many cultures and ideologies, he combines within himself a series of paradoxical styles of life. Faced with pressures which would have torn most men apart, Dedijer played his roles like a master historical gambler, shifting with the social context yet holding some basic values constant. The cost of this freedom was, for ten years, disgrace and exile. The reward has been personal vitality and historical peace of mind...
...letters were sent to Dean Watson and Master Bullit urging Harvard to halt production of the 19th century play by French dadaist Alfred Jarry. The letters were signed "a Harvard employees" and "a Cambridge resident...
...Corbu," of course, is remembered as the man who would have started improving Paris by demolishing its most historic part. But that was in 1922; the master is now 78 and mellowed. He has flattered his intended, asking, "Have you observed that Venice is gay and proud, never menaced, never shoved about, never disturbed?" Returning recently, he found Venice "a modern city made for man, without the oppression of machine civilization...
...PITUITARY GLAND. Just about the hardest part of the body for a surgeon to get at is the pea-sized pituitary gland (see diagram), producer of a few master hormones that govern the production of dozens of "slave" hormones. An overactive pituitary causes Cushing's syndrome, some forms of gigantism and adult overgrowth, and some cases of virilism in girls and women. Removal or deactivation of even a normally active pituitary helps some patients with advanced cancer of the breast or prostate, and diabetes victims going blind from bleeding of retinal arteries...
...knew just how to put it to good use. Operating on the principle that "the shortest distance between a pending bill and a Congressman's aye is through his stomach," he installed a French chef in his kitchen and invited Washington's notables. He was a master of the graduated political gift; Presidents occasionally might receive a case of Madeira, while Cabinet members would rate only terrapin, and Congressmen wound up with canvasback duck. Ward never arm-twisted guests or mentioned his interests, but when a bill of his reached the floor, former tablemates would receive a note...