Word: painful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pictures by Barlach and Lehmbruck carry on the feeling of loneliness and pain that characterize this period...
...Stevenson's speeches of the oldtime patent medicine man who used to drive into a town, gather a crowd, and after softening them up with a funny story and a few wisecracks would harangue the crowd with spellbinding oratory that so magnified every itch, twitch and minor pain inherent in every human being that half his listeners thought they had incipient cancer, tuberculosis or at least a chronic ulcer. Stevenson's speeches are filled with the same wisecracks, half-truths, distortions and exaggerations designed to scare the susceptible into believing that the Democratic Magic Elixir is their only...
...most noted surgeons, Dr. Francois Ody of Geneva. "The great masters of the scalpel, admired by my generation, will soon become legendary figures," he prophesied. "Hundreds of instruments will be discarded. No more operating tables, diathermic knives and anesthesia installations ... no more operative shock, no more anguish, no more pain." This revolution will be wrought, Dr. Ody believes, by improved internal medication - "All the victories which have been the pride of brilliant surgeons will be forgotten on the day when a medical genius, a laboratory man, chemist or physician discovers the substance which, in the form of a capsule, will...
...sort of American hero and historymaker, maneuvering about the island with his sets of blueprints and his inevitable 4-ft. rule. He is a middling-sized man with even features, warm and straightforward eyes. He is aloof to the point of inaccessibility; he is shy to the point of pain, finding it almost agonizing to call even his closest friends by their first names. "I don't see how you do it," he said one day when two old friends were first-naming each other. "I wish I could, but I just wasn't built that...
Weldy began to argue again with Har rison. "He was gesticulating and nearly hysterical," according to Harrison, who had never come up against an armed reader before. "The gun flew from his hand and hit a rock. Courtney screamed. I felt an awful pain and fell down. Weldy beat it like a shot out of hell." Govoni, who was armed, lit out fast, too. Like Weldy, he said he rushed off to get help, though both seemed equally eager to get out of gunfire range. That left Harrison, clutching a flesh wound in his left shoulder, and Miss Courtney...