Word: polio
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...Rhesus is of particular importance in the testing of Polio vaccine for use in humans. These tests are required by the Food and Drug Administration, and no other species is adequate, Hunt said...
...number of our countrymen will not be cooking ye Xmas turkey or ye mince pie at all. They are instead preparing outlandish dishes that I can barely spelle or pronownce. These platters have such names as ortolans á la périgourdine, chausson de jambon au foie gras et truffes, polio in umido, media yemista, klephtiko charti, kalua pig, civet de lievre, poularde de Bresse a la demi-deuil, moussaka, agnello in vescica con ginepro, frit-tatas, beignets, gaufrettes, gazpacho, gefullte Schweinerippchen, pastello di pesce, dim sum, kaeng keao wan, shashlik, crudites, ratatouille, pho, ktapodi krassato, calfs head (aargh!) caillou, grenouilles...
...play's most moving scene occurs at the very outset. A wheelchair-ridden Roosevelt, paralyzed by polio in 1921, painfully attempts to stand erect without supports of any kind. Grimacing in agony, Roosevelt hesitantly rises from the chair, straightens his posture, and...does it. The significance of the accomplishment does not go unnoticed. Confident of his ability to stand firmly and address an audience, Roosevelt agrees to enter the 1928 New York gubernatorial race, embarking on a path that would lead to the White House four years later...
...actual meeting with "the old malefactor" doesn't come until the end of A Visit To Haldeman and Other States of Mind. But the anticipation of the meeting carries the reader through an otherwise rambling book that includes tales from Mee's boyhood, the story of his fight with polio, his theories on the recent death and inevitable rebirth of the republic, and imagined conversations with Nixon and "Exxon"--an archetypal business executive who informs Mee that present governments are outmoded and that multinational corporations will inevitably rule the world. They will, Exxon says, be responsive only to "the reality...
...times, Mee seems self-indulgent, as when he describes at great length his battle with polio at age 14. But he inevitably goes on to link the personal with the political: his bout with polio serves both as an explanation of why he turned to writing--to apply his mind since his body wasn't working too well--and as an allegory for the condition of the country. Just as people recover from illness, Mee writes, so democratic republics will revive even if they lapse into oligarchy, as America has. The logical connection between one person's physical health...