Word: said
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oxford of Novelist Evelyn Waugh (Brideshead Revisited') where the "subtly homosexual youth . . . carries his teddy bear about St. John's Quad . . . boys roar out into the country in Bentley roadsters, and over Cointreau and plovers' eggs have some dazzling conversations "about God and Truth." But, said Burdick, "Times have changed since Waugh was here. The Oxford homosexual today has neither wittiness nor creative eccentricity to recommend him . . Parties revolve around gin and orange which is, beyond question, one of the most barbaric drinks that any people ever accepted voluntarily. Things boil along to the accompaniment of some...
...Brooklyn, a taxpayer's suit had asked that Oliver Twist and The Merchant of Venice be banned from New York City public schools on the ground that Fagin and Shylock were "antiSemitic and anti-religious." Last week, State Supreme Court Justice Anthony J. DiGiovanna said no. He held that the test was whether either book had been "maliciously written" to rouse prejudice, ruled both Dickens and Shakespeare in the clear...
...that shock and infection have been brought under control by science, thromboembolism* has replaced them as the principal cause of death after operations, reported Dr. Alton Ochsner of Tulane. Because of the clotting speedup, he said, the "almost routine administration of antibiotics to all hospital patients" has become a major factor in the increase in cases of thromboembolism...
Ochsner was not, he said, speaking against antibiotics, "the greatest thing in medicine": their good points dramatically offset their bad. The main thing, he said, is that doctors must know the bad points, and deal with them so as to take full advantage of the good ones...
...seven, with his first polonaise, and seldom strayed from it. His family and friends implored him to write operas, symphonies, oratorios. But he called the piano "my solid ground; on that I stand the strongest." His compositions, with their poetry, fire and freshness, never came easily: "Before I have said my last word, I must go through horrible pangs and tribulations, with many tears and sleepless nights...