Word: oral
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Franklin L. Ford, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and chairman of the committee, said yesterday that his committee received no testimony, "written or oral," in support of a drama department...
...these poems aloud to myself," she tells Orr. "My first book, The Colossus, I can't read any of the poems aloud now. I didn't write them to be read aloud. In fact, they quite privately bore me." Later, Plath seems to be intrigued by the idea of oral poetry...
...oral contraceptive pill is under indictment once more. This time it is accused of increasing the risk of heart attacks among women over 30, and especially among those over 40. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just sent a warning bulletin to 600,000 medical professionals, suggesting that they advise Pill-taking patients over 40 to switch to some other contraceptive...
...announced that it intends to require the inclusion of an appropriate warning in the labeling of oral contraceptives. But this "labeling" does not refer to the little sticker that the pharmacist puts on the bottle or box of pills. It refers to the fine-print technical information that drug companies supply only to pharmacists, doctors and to the publisher of the widely used book, Physicians' Desk Reference. Thus it will still be up to the conscientious doctor to convey the warning to his patients...
What Kipling possessed, perhaps, was a vitality too restless to organize for a long, sustained effort. It was a vitality that amounted to genius: the ancient, powerful magnetism of the oral storyteller. Wearing the mask of a Union Jack Englishman, Kipling may have been more of a native than a colonial all along...