Word: miltonic
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...kept in place until the patient's condition stabilizes and a donor organ is found. Surgeons can now choose among several types of pumps. While Gaidosh received the familiar Jarvik-7, Mandia's surgery marked the debut of the Penn State heart, developed by Surgeon William Pierce of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for temporary use only and is designed to overcome the blood-clotting problems that have plagued Jarvik-7 recipients. Dallara, meanwhile, was connected to a pair of external pumps called ventricular assist devices, which are ordinarily...
That these student eyewitnesses were not able speak to special master Milton Katz '27 is partly the fault of the students themselves. Katz's number is in the phone book, and they could have easily contacted him. "I was happy to talk to anybody who wanted to speak to me," said Katz...
...Condors are far more interesting, perhaps because narrative quickens in the presence of evil and strife. John Milton faced such a problem when he portrayed Satan in Paradise Lost, and Le Guin, working on a different level, explicitly acknowledges the dilemma. One of the chorus of voices in the book belongs to Pandora, who seems to represent both the character from Greek mythology and contemporary Western consciousness. Through the magic of time travel, Pandora converses with a Kesh woman librarian. These enlightened people routinely throw away books and documents. As the dialogue continues, Pandora grows frustrated. "I never did like...
...others to see them. The reality is more tragic. They refuse to see themselves! Instead, many take refuge in the rhetoric of "racism at Harvard" as though matriculation at such heavenly institutions as Howard University or the University of Liberia was not an option. Still others wax "cosmopolitan" (borrowing Milton M. Gordon's term, read anglo-conformist) partaking of that sacred cultural narcotic: interracial mating. These equally counterproductive behavioral patterns serve predictable cathartic functions. For example, the word racism has immense deflective utility. It is frequently an excellent semantic device for obfuscating the internal roots of group failings. Thus...
...known bondholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding one percent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages or other securities are: Milton Cades, P.O. Box 939, Honolulu, Hawaii 96808; Eileen H. Char Revocable Living Trust, 629 Elepaio Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816; Lloyd F. Char Revocable Living Trust, 629 Elepaio Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816; *The Depository Trust Company, Box 20, Bowling Green Station, New York, New York 10274; The Equitable Life Assurance Society, 1285 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10019; Hawaii National Bank, 120 South King Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 96813; John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance...