Word: organization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...satirical targets in this collection of stories and sketches may seem like the same old contemporary lemons, but look again. Max Apple (The Oranging of America, Zip) knows there is more than one way to make lemonade - sometimes sweet, sometimes astringent, always bracing. Organ transplants? In the bizarre courtroom drama of the title piece, the author's vital parts try to protect themselves against being traded to another body by demanding the right to bargain as free agents. The video-electronic revolution...
...Corporation is Harvard's highest administrative organ--save the largely ceremonial Board of Overseers--but instead of getting involved in the day-to-day affairs of many different areas of the University, it concentrates on long range planning and only takes direct responsibility for major financial matters...
...Shaw with "Stalinism." And yet the author's praise is not entirely fulsome. Prophetic fiction owes its very existence to Wells. He was, as Joseph Conrad wrote, a "realist of the fantastic." In The World Set Free, he predicted the atom bomb; in The Island of Dr. Moreau, organ transplants; in The War of the Worlds, laser beams. Wells also produced a vast body of nonfiction, capped by The Outline of History, an almost hysterically optimistic attempt to trace mankind's ascent from darkness to a science-aided summit far from the present day. Like most of Wells...
...example, the play opens and intersperses scenes with flashing lights, organ music, and Gregorian chants a la Young Frankenstein. The audience, though puzzled, is amused, and the playmakers are faithful to Artaud's intention that theatre be the church of an inverted religion exorcising violence from man by acting it out on stage...
...essential to remember that the oath was written thousands of years ago. The medical capabilities of the physician then were highly limited, so much so that it was safe to make such a promise without fear of the impending ethical questions raised by devices such as respirators or organ transplants. But many aspects of this oath are simply outdated; in fact, it includes a promise never to remove kidney stones, a standard procedure today which was fatal at the time the oath was written...