Word: melvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard winners include John Womack Jr. '59, professor of History: William A. Graham Jr. '70, associate professor of Islamic Religion: Stanley J. Tambiah, professor of Anthropology: Robert P. Bergman, associate professor of Fine Arts: David Dressler, lecturer on Biochemistry and Biology: Melvin Joel Konner, associate professor of Biological Anthropology: Joel Porte. professor of English and American Literature: Raymond Siever, professor of Geology; Paul Starr, assistant professor of Sociology: Tison Street, associate professor of Music; and Ernest E. Williams, professor of Biology...
...doctors first consider using a less drastic mechanical aid, the so-called assist device. This piece of equipment leaves the natural heart intact but takes over the operation of one of the pumping chambers, usually the left ventricle, giving it a chance to recover and resume functioning. Says Cardiologist Melvin Cheitlin, who headed the FDA advisory panel that evaluated the device: "Once you've taken someone's heart out, you've really burnt the bridge...
...murder.) Guilt has also created stereotypes. In a poem on the comic actor Willie Best, LeRoi Jones listed the unlaughable characteristics: "Lazy/ Frightened/ Thieving/ Very potent sexually/ Scars/ Generally inferior/ But natural rhythms." White America has also created itself-a world that, when depicted in a novel like William Melvin Kelley's dem (1967), comes off as pallid, literally colorless, and trapped. In Drylongso, an oral history collected by John Langston Gwaltney and published last July, Jackson Jordan Jr., a nearly 90-year-old black North Carolinian, puts it to white people rather kindly: "Pretending to know everything...