Word: organization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When doctors suspect disease in a deep-seated vital organ, e.g., the heart or liver, it may be dangerous or downright impossible to take a tissue sample (biopsy specimen) for microscopic examination. Biochemistry may supply a neat if not simple solution, says Dr. Felix Wróblewski of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute. Instead of cutting for a tissue sample, it may be enough for the doctor to get a little blood from the patient and analyze its enzymes...
...acute appendicitis, physicians and surgeons have been almost unanimous for more than half a century that the thing to do was to cut out the diseased and apparently useless organ as fast as possible. In the last dozen years, many have wondered whether antibiotics might do the job as well as the scalpel, but few have dared to take a chance. In the British Medical Journal, Surgeon Eric Coldrey reports that, in three years at Rotherham Hospital in Yorkshire, he has taken this chance in 137 cases of acute appendicitis and has lost only one patient (a feeble...
Adler came closer to this cosmic ex perience. He called it "social feeling," and through it "gained a profound and intimate connection with life." This, suggests Progoff, sprang from his extravert nature, just as his theory about "organ inferiority" leading to compensation, and often overcompensation, must have been derived from his childhood. (Adler's earliest memory was of himself as an ailing, rachitic two-year-old, bandaged like a mummy, immobile on a park bench while his elder brother bounced around showing off his prowess.) A disciple of Freud until he broke with him in 1911, Adler insisted that...
...going on around him. And often enough it was the the funny side of things that got his attention, in beseiged Madrid for instance, where Franco broadcasted each day the Falangists' dinner menus to the hungry loyalists, and where he and his friends would play Jimmie Lunceford's "Organ Grinder's Swing" all night to drown out the noise of the bombing...
Tonight's concert will include Ode on St. Cecilia's Day and Organ Concerto, Opus 7, Number 2, by Handel; Magnificat, by John C. Crawford 2G, and Gloria from "Mass of the Holy Spirit" by Randall Thompson, Walter W. Noumberg Professor of Music...