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...being devoured from within by sicklecell anemia, which happens to be the doctor's specialty. He lectures his small daughter - and the audience - on the disease and even shows microscope slides of the cells swimming dangerously about. The romance flourishes, but so does the disease. Despite the med ical seminars and discussions about black identity, Africa, and medicine to help the poor, A Warm December is no angry social document. It is very much in the old tradition of star-crossed Ruritanian romance, with overtones of Love Story. Poitier deals with grave matters, but in such a cushy...
...behind this system is that every House should have the same mix of public school and private school graduates, of scientists and humanists, and of academic brightness and benightedness. If these quotas are used, the theory goes, no House will be stereotyped as a preppie House or a pre-med House, a jock House or a wonk House...
...their Crimsonese cynicism stopped picking this bone year after year and spent their time looking more closely at what was in the book. This year's review glosses over months of thought and planning in two short not very thoughtful paragraphs. He misses the basic message of the Pre-Med article. Its author was trying to get behind the pre-med stereotype and look at individuals, but the reviewer, it seems, would rather have had him stick with the stereotypes...
...side of social realism, there's an attempt at describing what the editors call "The Pre-Med Subculture." I'm still not sure whether the author's final judgment is that some pre-meds are always "obnoxious and overbearing," or whether all pre-meds are sometimes "obnoxious and overbearing...
...condition of the gift or unless the donor tries to impose restrictions on the use of the money that would constrain the freedom of ideas. A recent offer to endow a series of lectures against careers for women was refused on these grounds, as was a gift to the Med School for "the application of music to medical cases as a treatment...