Word: plasticity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plastic bottle-cap salesman just home from the Orient was telling an odd tale in Manhattan last week. He had been having an expense-account special (bird's-nest soup, aromatic chicken) at Mang Wing-tei's in Hong Kong, when in came "this big, storklike American wearing a black and blue mandarin's costume. He said he was celebrating the Year of the Rat. Irving Hoffman was his name...
...centers, many surgeons find themselves driven back from the body's extremities. As they retreat to the trunk, they find gynecologists, urologists and others staking claims on some particular organ or area. Only half the general surgeons polled still do orthopedic operations; only one in five does urological, plastic or heart-artery procedures...
Among the more limited specialties there are similar complaints of Balkanization. Pathologists, shut off in their laboratories studying specimens from patients they never see, resent the radiologists' monopoly of tracer studies done with radioactive isotopes. Plastic surgeons, whose practice is supposed to be little more than skin-deep, can hardly lift the scalpel without trespassing. Said one: "Every operation in my field crosses other specialties' borderlines." But it works both ways: the plastic men complain that ear-nose-throat specialists are too willing to bob noses...
...stained glass for commercial buildings, Kepes reserves his best hours for painting of the stillest sort, often at the studio of his house in Wellfleet, Cape Cod. He coats each large canvas with thin color, then drips onto it what appear to be blobs, twigs and trailings of plastic glue. Onto the glue he drips sand from the beach. Then he works in gobs of bright color with a palette knife, and finally glazes over most of the picture with more thin sheets of color. The results are physically as fragile, in all probability, as those of an earlier American...
Adults and schoolchildren downed the mixture at a gulp. For infants, the vaccine was usually put in a plastic teaspoon, sterile from a fresh pack. The teaspoon was thrown away after...