Word: organism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...32nd week of pregnancy. Although right-to-lifers and others are bound to take issue with Purpura's suggestion that human life begins with brain life, there should be little opposition from physicians. Most of them recognize that the brain rather than the heart is the central organ of life, and that life ends with the death of the brain...
...elections and a measure of democratic rule to Cuba. Castro's failure to hold free elections had become a major preoccupation of Cuba's 9 million people, as well as a popular refrain among foreign critics of the Cuban revolution. Last week Granma, the official Communist Party organ, published a draft of a proposed new constitution, which provides for an elected National Assembly; it is expected to be submitted to a public referendum later this year...
Strauss's advice that economy of gesture can be more effective than the manners of the grand dompteur," praised Die Welt. Heath, who won an organ scholarship at Oxford in the 1930s, had a ready explanation for his greater success as conductor than Conservative Party leader. "The orchestra has 120 musicians," he observed, "and Conservatives in the House of Commons number...
Unfortunately, the Lamentations were interspersed with organ works by the little-known modern French composer Jehan Alain. Despite the confident playing of Daniel Hathaway, the mainstay of the first tenors. Alain's eclectic and grating style created an unpleasant contrast to Renaissance ethercality. They emphasized that the unique Renaissance mixture of an exalted religious devotion and a classical sense of propriety has been irrevocably banished from modern music and the modern world...
Wolfe had cooked up an elaborate theory: that the novel rose to success because it was an organ of social realism, and that at its height novelists did real research before writing. But after the Second World War, the novelists dropped the baton and, passing into the ozone of interior landscapes, wrote about nothingness and such. That left the way open for the new journalism, which was a great revival of social realism and had therefore replaced the novel as the dominant literary art form of the modern age. All that was stated; what was implied, of course, was that...