Word: rereadability
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...Leslie Weatherhead's statement [May 18] that death, like birth, need not be left to God, seems to overlook the fact that God never issued a commandment, ''Thou shalt not assist at birth." I'm scurrying now to my Old Testament to reread the commandment I once misread-you know, the one that goes, "Thou shalt not kill, without the help of a government-appointed, medically qualified referee...
...what had they swallowed? Best clue was that Donna had eaten no flounder and had not got sick. Dr. Singley remembered having read in medical school a 1945 report of sodium nitrite poisoning in New York City. A colleague clinched it: he had just reread the same story in Berton Roueché's Eleven Blue Men, reprinted from The New Yorker. Simultaneously, unknown to the Camden team, doctors across the Delaware River were giving methylene blue to women who had eaten flounder in a downtown restaurant...
...Recently I reread your March 24 cover story, "The Recession-How Deep? How Long?", and you deserve an orchid for 20/20 foresight. The stockmarket's action in the last seven months, rising almost 100 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average, has justified your cover captioned "Wall Street Bull: Spring, 1958." Forecasted pickups have likewise occurred in housing, steel and autos-to mention just a few indices -and you are to be commended for your courage in publishing this article when the recession was close to rock bottom. JULIUS M. WESTHEIMER Baltimore...
When Clive Staples Lewis, 59, England's top amateur theologian, reread the psalms, he was bothered by the cursing. In 109, for instance, the psalmist prays that an ungodly man may rule over his enemy and that Satan may stand at his right hand, that his enemy's ""prayers be turned into sin," that the enemy's days be few and his job be given to someone else, that when he is dead his orphans be beggars, that no one should pity him, and that God always remember against him the sins of his parents. Even more...
...distresses him considerably, but he does not hate anyone for it. As a soldier he had only one desire-and that was to help rebuild a young, well-equipped, sportsmanlike army with a great ideal." To the swarms of reporters who greeted him in Paris, the exiled colonel simply reread the same statement. "Don't make me say anything else," he begged with a grin, "or you'll have me in the cooler...