Word: normalities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them enjoy the advantages of the Advanced Placement program. That means only one out of every 125 Harvard students is able "to cover areas of his field not touched by formal courses and to delve deeper, by intensive reading, into his field than he might do in a normal program of study," as one of the fortunate few has put it. There may be things wrong with the Advanced Placement--Course Reduction program, but certainly its greatest defect now is just its smallness. Few administrators would say only one of every 125 students has the intellectual capacity and integrity...
Because the nun must maintain her faith and above all her chastity, and the Marine, relinquish his love for her, pure or normal as it is, the film's value is reduced to a light, often humorous level. Drama gives way to scenes of Platonic tenderness and dedication between the two. These are sensitively enough handled so that while Sister Anglea undergoes only brief moments of temptation and inner turmoil, and Mr. Allison takes his fate quickly in stride, this story of a Marine and a nun on a lush Pacific island is a first-rate fairy-tale...
...hundred times or more each week in a dozen or so U.S. medical centers where heart surgery has become an everyday affair. Many surgeons use heart-lung machines more or less similar to Bailey's. Some chill their patients to a body temperature 10° or more below normal. Others may plunge a needle into a patient's heart and deliberately stop its beat for as long as they need to work inside it. Generally, they cut, stitch, stretch, graft, rebuild and insert gadgets in the heart with ever-growing success-although the death rate inevitably is high...
...devised an ingenious way of sewing a rubber well to the auricle so that he could open the chamber and work inside it with his fingers and suture needle, but he was still operating blindly by feel in a puddle of pulsing blood. The problem was that, at normal body temperature, the brain suffers irreparable damage if deprived of blood for more than about four minutes. But if the body's temperature is lowered, its tissues need less blood, and the brain can survive without damage for twice the normal time. Bailey wondered whether by chilling the patient (hypothermia...
...this is only the first step in his new career. Eventually, he hopes to earn an M.A. and to specialize in teaching handicapped children. "You see," says he, "I have a boy who is practically blind. And he wants so much to be accepted as a normal boy, to do the things that are expected of a normal boy. I know what these children go through. If I can do something to help them, I'll have more than all the money anyone can pay me in dollars and cents...