Word: riskier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anesthetics are riskier than most people realize. One of the dangers is from cerebral anoxia-damage to the brain because of lack of oxygen in the blood, which may kill, paralyze or even turn the patient into a mental defective. Thus far, surgeons have had to rely on such none-too-certain tactics as watching the patient's color, respiration and pulse, or using slow chemical tests...
Eisler is riskier still in a new book, Composing for the Films (Oxford University Press; $3), just out. In it, he tees off not only on the producers but on the public: "The practitioners of commercial music ... have had to deal with an illiterate, intolerant, and uncritical public taste, and they have had to bow to it if they wanted to remain true to their dubious maxim: give the public nothing but what the public wants. . . . The alleged will of the public is manifested only indirectly, through the box-office receipts...
...they were not smart enough to whip the eternal dilemma of the man-hunted. All they gained was liquor and women : as they moved from apartment to apartment they left a trail of bobby pins and empty bottles. Otherwise life was just like prison - except that it was riskier...