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...reconstructing society, the classics must not be forgotten. It is in humanizing, in leavening human society that we can overcome those forces which, shooting up from the soil of a 'reckless' materialism, work adversely to the finer and nobler aspirations of human society...
...dancing on the podium to Strauss's three-quarter rhythms. And while he captured the elegiac bittersweetness that is at the very heart of the autumnal work, he freed it of the sentimental encrustations that Strauss never intended; as a result it was sharper, livelier, nobler...
...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...
Hodgkin's and three kindred diseases may appear to be distinct entities at certain stages, but in fact they blend into each other. So, Dr. Nobler declared, the thing to do now is to ignore these distinctions and get on with the supervoltage treatment. That way, ten-year survival rates for Hodgkin's patients treated early have been pushed as high as 68% and five-year rates to 80% at some centers...
...sheltered by our relative affluence, efficiency, and cooperativeness from what it is like to live in a world of peasant distrust, misery, and fatalism. And yet Volunteers do learn. Many in the Colombia group had begun with a somewhat romantic belief that poor people, such as peasants, were somehow nobler and better than middle-class Americans, while others had begun with the more characteristic almost unconscious pride in their Americanism. Experience seemed to have tempered the judgments of both groups, leading the first to a somewhat greater respect for certain American qualities and the second to a greater sym- pathy...