Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tampa Tribune found a local physician with emphysema, only one serviceable lung, and an unconquerable craving for cigarettes. Between drags, the doctor advised against doing as he did: "Anyone who smokes is a damn fool." The Boston Traveler quoted a dental surgeon to the effect that smoking broils the palate, "just like a piece of meat on a grill." In Detroit, the News front-paged the decision of a mother of 14 children-" 'PACK-A-DAY' MOM SAYS SHE'LL QUIT"-alongside a family portrait showing the mother blithely puffing away. The Chicago Daily News asked Social...
Curves & Squares. For Manhattan Physician Howard Taylor, Architect John M. Johansen has built a many-chambered nautilus. Johansen, who trained under Walter Gropius, has veered away from the Master's Bauhaus cubism into a vocabulary of curves and coils, pleasing both to look at and to live in. The Taylor house is cast in forms of rough-sawed random-width oak slabs, which give concrete a rich, grainy texture. Says Johansen: "I think of a house as a series of shells which contain human organisms; the outside of the shell is an epidermis, and it can be as rough...
...Erich Baeumer, the country physician from Wiedenau, Germany, who translated the warning into people talk, insists that all chickens speak an international language made up of 30 basic sentences. And as a fowl linguist, the portly G.P. speaks with considerable authority. He has been studying the birds for nearly 60 years...
...Woman, who swept aside the Victorian double standard, which was partly based on the almost universally held notion that women-or at any rate, ladies-did not enjoy sex. One eminent doctor said it was a "foul aspersion" on women to say they did. The celebrated 2nd century Physician Galen was (and is) often incompletely quoted to the effect that "every animal is sad after coitus." Actually, as Kinsey pointed out, he had added the qualification, "except the human female and the rooster." Siding with Galen, women claimed not only the right to work and to vote, but the even...
...sonnets were written in 1592-94, because they contain innumerable topical references "obvious to an historian." "Mortal moon," for example, was a stock epithet for Queen Elizabeth. Sonnet 107 therefore could only refer to the Queen's safe survival after the attempt of her Spanish physician, Dr. Lopez, to poison...