Word: patchworks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...premise of Godspell is the special contemporary relevance of the Christian message. The show's book is the Good Book, and its lyrics mostly simple exhortations to faith; but here the Word is transplanted to a junkyard where the innocents who make themselves up as Jesus' disciples cavort in patchwork splendor...
...PATCHWORK MOUSE...
Given the medical implications, it was certain someone would write a book about the Sloan-Kettering scandal. What was not inevitable was a book as well wrought as The Patchwork Mouse. Hixson, a former newspaper reporter and public information officer at S.K.I., has gone beyond the emotionalism of the Summerlin affair to take a hard look at the promises and problems of big-league research. The result is a cautionary tale that no scientist-or layman-can afford to ignore...
...Summerlin is the true villain of the piece. That role is played by the Catch-22 strategies of modern medical research. Federal grants, which guarantee jobs and prestige, are in decreasing supply. Where cancer is concerned, money tends to go to experimenters with positive track records. As The Patchwork Mouse illustrates, such lopsided philanthropy leads not only to personal tragedy but scandalous science. The dangers of a system fueled by anxiety and dependent on immediate success cannot be exaggerated. The Summerlin affair was only the handwriting; Hixson is worried about the wall itself...
County Armagh in Northern Ireland is a 512-sq. mi. patchwork of rocky grazing pastures whose southern tip juts 15 miles deep into the Irish Republic. This salient is populated by some 20,000 predominantly Roman Catholic farmers and dairymen, many of whom still resent the untidy mapwork that placed them in the British-ruled North rather than the independent South at the time of the 1921 partition. Armagh is a staging area for gunmen of the Provisional Wing of the Irish Republican Army (Provos), who frequently enter the country from sanctuaries in the Irish Republic to strike at British...