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...transplanted digit has little or no sensation, and there is not much flexion at its joints. The new finger must be moved as a unit from the knuckle. This is no great drawback, particularly for thumb grafts, which have enabled patients to pick up and use tools, a pen, a spoon or a glass...
...thought of leaving," he says, "something else blew up-and I just stayed." The Australian Broadcasting Commission's Donald Simmons plans to stay "as long as I don't get knocked off. Why give up the best news story in the world in favor of pushing a pen behind a desk?" Malcolm Browne, formerly of the Associated Press, has been awarded a fellowship and will leave soon, after five years in Viet Nam. "I have the horrible, sinking feeling," he says, "that I may never be able to come back...
Later, an icy wind swirled dust into a branding pen. Students rassled struggling calves to the ground, shoved a tube with a medical pellet down their throats, rammed a needle into their shoulders to vaccinate against blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi...
...life was more difficult than poetry. In the fall of 1962, just after the birth of her son Nicholas, she and Hughes separated permanently. Alone with the children in Devon, Sylvia hurled herself into a heroic but foolhardy attempt to probe her deepest problems with the point of a pen...
...There are still mysterious forces at work in the world," says Isaac Bashevis Singer. Dipping his pen in an inkwell of wonders, he has drawn out, in his demonic, forceful fiction (The Family Moskat, The Magician of Lublin, Short Friday), a fantastic and various vision of Eastern Europe's vanished Jewry. His work has already commandingly established him as the greatest living master of Yiddish prose and as one of the enduring leaders among U.S. novelists. Now 61, he has issued a memorable memoir of his Polish boyhood-a group of brief, incidental sketches that Singer first wrote...