Word: organ
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejected the argument on the theory that the heart would never have been removed if the man had not first been fatally shot in the head. Regardless of the opposing rulings, Stanford Heart Surgeon Norman Shumway is worried that both cases will discourage the use of assault victims as organ donors. The Flores case, however, will be appealed, leaving it to a higher California court to decide whether a medical determination of death before transplant surgery meets the meticulous requirements of criminal...
...should be too much put off. The book's quip-filled tirades, like Shaw's prefaces, provide a splendid intellectual fix on the drama. Coffin temporarily leaves his wife and children, as well as Rinsler's movement, which proves as unscrupulous as any Establishment organ. He then tries to practice one-on-one enlightenment as straw boss to a crew of black migrant apple pickers on his ancestral New Hampshire estate. The results are hilarious but depressing...
Marie-Claire Alain returns to Harvard to play the Fisk organ at Memorial Church. She is one of the world's great organists and will be worth hearing...
...Eventually transplanted to the New World, the Reform movement drew strength from the pluralism of the U.S. Newly arrived German immigrants, eager to prove their Americanism, continued to reshape traditional Jewish customs and worship toward the image of Protestantism. The vernacular replaced Hebrew as the principal language of worship; organ music and Sunday services became widely popular. Confirmation replaced the bar mitzvah; dietary restrictions were relaxed. While Orthodox Jews continued to pray, in the traditional phrase, for their return "next year" to Jerusalem, Reform Jews became anti-Zionist, awaiting instead a "universal" kingdom...
...acute liver failure has included such cumbersome techniques as replacing the patient's entire blood supply by transfusion, or filtering the blood through the liver of a pig or baboon. These procedures are designed to relieve the liver of the task of cleansing the blood, giving the organ an opportunity to regenerate itself. But all of them are unreliable, and even when a patient gets well, there is often doubt that his recovery has been significantly aided by the treatment...