Word: moments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nervous until I started to scrub and had my work to do, and then I hadn't time to be nervous," says Peggy. The big moment that she remembers most clearly was seeing "the Prof," as she calls Barnard, carrying in the donor heart, in a stainless-steel pan. When he removed Louis Washkansky's heart, Barnard put this in a pan and handed it to Nurse Jordaan. This moment had no emotional impact. The heart seemed like just another organ to be sent to the pathology department-but in this case, the next stop was the hospital...
...colleagues, had forearmed herself with a list of the nurses and technicians who would be available. So the double team of six "scrub nurses" (the only ones who are allowed to handle sterile instruments during surgery) and two heart-lung machine technicians were soon assembled. Of the great moment itself, Mrs. Davis, says calmly: "We were happy to be doing what we'd been waiting for so long." Nurse Peggy Hartin, who headed one of the double teams, recalls: "I stopped being nervous when we stepped into the familiar routine that Dr. Shumway likes...
...sets off to the rescue without informing the audience of its plan-which is always a variation of the con game. Each operative wins the enemy's trust by playing a separate innocent role; together, they catch the villain off balance when everything clicks at a pre-arranged moment, usually four minutes before sign-off time...
...holding it limp and spent in his hand, looking at himself in the bathroom mirror of his shame: And in the privacy of his brain, quiet in the glare of all that sound and spotlight, Mailer thought quietly, "My God, that is probably exactly what you are at this moment, Lyndon Johnson with all his sores, sorrows, and vanity squeezed down to five foot eight," and Mailer felt for the instant possessed, as if he had seized some of the President's secret soul...
...journalist, I could only describe Mailer as I saw Mailer. But how relevant or how real is that judgment? What counts is how Mailer saw Mailer, for that is what Mailer really was at that moment as he was being arrested. This is the justification for this kind of personalized journalism. It is the answer to the doubt Mailer expresses in his piece: To write an intimate history of an event which places its focus on a central figure who is not central to the event, is to inspire immediate questions about the competence of the historian...