Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...advantages. A living donor may lie about his health, especially about such a vital question as whether he has had hepatitis. Moreover, he cannot comfortably give more than a pint every two or three months. The corpse cannot lie, and the pathologists doing an autopsy can check every vital organ for disease-including the liver for evidence of hepatitis. They select as donors only the corpses of presumably healthy individuals who die suddenly, as in traffic accidents or from heart attacks. A cadaver yields far more blood than a walking donor: the Pontiac investigators have drawn as many as three...
Walker has admirably avoided transcriptions from other mediums, but the one he did choose showed just how bad the results of such adaptations can be. This, a Toccata, was written by Frescobaldi, but you wouldn't know it from the transcription. Like Stokowski's orchestral renditions of Bach organ music, the adaptation turned the freshness and grace of the 17th century toccata into trite 20th century melodrama. Walker added to the distortion by twisting the evenness of the melodic lines with Romantic nuances...
...research funds are footing the bills. Moreover, it is applicable to relatively few kidney disease cases. For many victims, whose disease is caused by previous high blood pressure, the method is no answer because their arterial disease is the main threat to life. But it shows that an artificial organ can substitute for the natural one for long periods. It will help researchers to find out what the deadly metabolic poisons are and thus, perhaps, point the way to cheaper, safer and less cumbersome ways of treating all forms of kidney disease...
...from whore to henpecker. Of all the cast they help most to keep the play from dragging. "I'm fast," says Miss Rosten engagingly, as Mae Rose Cottage. "You just wait. I'll sin till I blow up." But a few moments before, she was a garrulous, gossipy Mrs. Organ Morgan, and an almost lyric Rosic Probert ("Remember her./She is forgetting./The Earth which filled her mouth/Is vanishing from her"). And Miss Moses sings Polly Garter's song with all its appropriate plaintiveness. In other words, they both know how to read, and how to read Thomas...
...quarters on the Virginia side of the river, it will have to learn that its only job is to do research. A body already exists to fulfill the policy-making function of the British Special Operations Executive; it is of course the National Security Council, the only Executive organ lofty enough to be entrusted with operations planning. The intelligence decisions of the time are far too important to be left to the secret agents...