Word: reconnections
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Doctors warned that the accelerated pace of the Pope's recovery did not mean the end of his ordeal. John Paul faces a second major operation in approximately a month to reconnect his large intestine, which was surgically isolated to help cut the risk of infection. But a team of six doctors from five countries (two from the U.S., one each from France, Poland, Spain and West Germany) pronounced him to be recovering nicely so far. Early last week the Pope was moved to say, after sipping tea laced with sugar, "Per la prima volta, mi sento bene...
...explanations come profound observations about the nature and meaning of time. "What is past is not dead, it is not even past. We cut ourselves off from it; we pretend to be strangers," Wolf writes. Thus A Model Childhood becomes above all a plea to reconnect ourselves with our past, and teach our children the lessons of history as best we can--not to perpetuate guilt, but rather to promote sensitivity in the present...
...ones are now home recovering from their operations, their hearts working at full capacity. Furthermore, they may be better protected than most heart patients against a relapse. If their hearts need some help in the future, all Litwak should have to do is make a simple skin incision and reconnect the pump. The plumbing is still in place...
Does he go to reconnect with old sources of life or to seek out a familiar place to die? The risk is written on every page, beginning with an astonishing, tumbling opening sentence of 198 words (". . . the moving shadow of the plane below them, the eternal moving cross . . ."). At first, Wilderness seems like a man going to be buried rather than resurrected. The news catches up with him that his latest novel, The Valley of the Shadow of Death (Lowry's original title for Under the Volcano), has been turned down by his British publisher. After that disappointment...