Word: neck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...final tableau -- The Devil hanging triumphantly from the Soldier's neck while the Narrator grins and Schmidt brings the drum-roll to a climax -- caps everything convincingly...
...Crimson lacrosse team (0-7) sprung a surprise game plan--called offense--on an unsuspecting UMass squad yesterday, staying neck-in-neck with the highly-touted Minutemen for three quarters before collapsing...
...conditions. Now Dr. Donald Dohn of the Cleveland Clinic reports that a safe and effective remedy has been developed; patients with serious cases of hyperhydro-sis have been cured by surgery. The operation, called an upper thoracic sympathectomy, is performed by making an incision in the side of the neck and removing those thoracic ganglia (nerve connections) that relay impulses from the brain to the sympathetic (nonvoluntary) nerves that influence sweat glands in the hands. So far, all 25 patients who have had the operation have retained warm, dry hands...
...vital Prometheus, Christopher Kennedy communicates his suffering with sufficient strength and sincerity to hold the play together. Yet constantly craning his neck and turning his Roman profile to the light, Kennedy seems a little too arrogant: his sneers make the Titan's earlier compassion for man incomprehensible. With the exception of Liz Tyler, the chorus leader, and Louise Claps, the supporting cast too often tends toward melodrama or sing-song declamation. Tyler is adequate in a role comparable to the straight man in a comedy team; like a kindly next-door neighbor, she foils the cries and anguish of Prometheus...
Although there seemed to be far fewer beatings at the hands of the Viet Cong, conditions in the South held their own horror. One prisoner was buried up to his neck for days. Another, who was suffering from dysentery, was denied medical assistance and finally suffocated in his own excrement. For those well enough to walk, there were endless work details. Army Major William Hardy, captured in 1967, figures that the Viet Cong "treated me like a slave" because he is black and "they believed all they heard about Negroes still being treated like slaves...