Word: organism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...healthy man who wants to kill himself and a sick one who wants to live but is doomed for lack of a vital organ appear to have little in common. But Psychiatrist Paul H. Blachly of the University of Oregon Medical School believes that they have something to offer each other. He advocates a "symbiotic juxtaposition" of the two-bringing them together so that the potential suicide can gain a new outlook on life by donating either blood or an organ to the person who needs it to live...
...just part of it. When Eisenhower was suffering repeated heart attacks, Blachly recalls, at least 20 people offered him their hearts; such offers frequently come from people who are looking for a way to die. But that death wish might be purged, he reasons, if the donor gives an organ that is not essential to his own life. People who donate a kidney, Blachly notes, often experience "a sustained feeling of satisfaction and of being noble," and their personal relationships frequently become more satisfying...
After the 1968 campaign, Manshell, already the publisher of The Public Interest -the intellectual journal edited by Irving Kristol-decided to branch out into the field of foreign policy. Manshell wanted to found the strongest possible organ he could, one which would have an impact on the actual shaping of policy, and which would change the course of government thinking. As he puts it, "I don't think that anybody has a monopoly on wisdom, certainly not Washington. I'm interested in making the people who agree with me influential in Washington...
PEOPLE do not go to the opera to see good theatre, any more than they go to baseball games for the organ music. Operas performed in this country tend to be done in languages which neither the singers nor the audience understand, mainly to spare everyone the agony of an evening of insipid plot and badly worded dialogue. This is especially true of the comic opera, where a libretto is mainly a skeleton to drape music around, and the plot is filled with improbabilities acted out by impossible characters...
...might create a caste of subservient workers, as in 1984, or a breed of super-warriors out of a "genetics race" between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. An even more hideous nightmare would be the "clonal farm," where anyone could keep a deep-frozen identical twin on hand for organ transplants...