Word: modern
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Franklin L. Ford, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; will replace Crane Brinton as McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History...
General Anesthesia. Marcuse concedes that modern technology provides man with material well-being and even admits that more men may be happier today than ever before-but it is a happiness born of an ignorance ("a state of anesthesia") of what they could become. Men may think they have more freedom and more choices, he says, but the options open to them are not meaningfully different. In this state, man rejects all thoughts that challenge society's rationale-hence Marcuse's definition of man as "one-dimensional...
...improvements and prospects of further gains, said Dr. Myron P. Nobler, result from the use of modern radiation at supervoltage levels. This may come from a linear accelerator, a large cobalt-60 source, or a generator that puts out 2,000,000 electron volts. To protect the patient from radiation sickness and to spare normal tissue, healthy parts of his body must be shielded. At Memorial Hospital, said Dr. Nobler, an X ray with a grid background is made of the body area involved. On this X ray the radiologists mark the vital organs, such as lungs, which must...
From Broom to Pencil. Such modern techniques, combined with fast reaction to loan requests and an unusual willingness to take chances, have pushed Bradesco from nowhere 25 years ago into a commanding position as Brazil's biggest private bank-second in size to the federal government's bank. It now has deposits of $175 million, serves 1,200,000 customers and claims 174,000 shareholders, including all of its 8,064 employees...
...minister, Dean Miller will probably be remembered most for what one friend called his "genius in worship." "He had the ability to express man's spiritual needs and yearnings in a language which was neither traditional nor frantic in its attempt to be modern," his successor, Krister Standahl, said...