Word: reflecter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time has come for doctors to reflect on it, says the A.M.A., because the entrenched practice can be fatal. The University of Minnesota's Dr. Justin J. Wolfson recently reported a case in which an eight-day-old baby died because the thermometer had pierced the wall of its rectum. Actual perforation of the rectum appears to be rare, says the A.M.A., but "injury to the rectum by the thermometer is not uncommon. Severe bleeding, ulceration, abscesses, hematomas and scarring have been reported." Autopsies indicate that rectal injury may occur in more than 6% of patients...
...Peace is a fascinating exception. The papers, some of which were captured from Chinese Communist junks off the South China coast, some probably filched by Chinese Nationalist spies, cover most of 1961-a year when Red China was nursing bruised shins from the disastrous "Great Leap Forward." They reflect nagging discontent in army and peasant ranks, as well as the age-old Chinese belief in the efficacy of numerals as a cure-all for despair. Excerpts...
...papers it replaces. It is inheriting far more columnists than it can handle, but after trimming the list it will encourage guest columns from public figures. The editorial policy, says a top executive, will be a "blend of Hearst and Howard," and no one expects the mixture to reflect much internal conflict...
...confusion means that lower court judges will have no clear legal yardstick on which to decide censorship cases, and their determinations will reflect their own sensibilities more than the dictates of the law. Convictions will become even even more capricious than Ginzberg's. Defense attorneys will be unable to prepare their cases because they will not know which criteria the judge will employ. The Supreme Court should be clarifying the law, but in last week's decisions, it only scrambled it. The decisions have gone a long way toward confirming doubts about a court's ability to censor what...
HOGAN'S GOAT bares the roots of American experience with its forceful evocation of the Irish character, customs and political power. Emigrants relocated in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn reflect Playwright William Alfred's ethnic truths...