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...Patently the eucharist, as the Lord expressly states in the sixth chapter of John's gospel. Which is more truly history, the narration of Luke and Matthew (transeat its literary form), or the eviscerated version lucubrated by the gnosis of the demythologizers? Evidently the former. If the hermeneutical scalpel is to be wielded in public, one must use great care lest he convey to the little ones that Scrooge was correct when he said of the Christmas tale, "Bah, humbug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 3, 1964 | 1/3/1964 | See Source »

...surgery, dominated by the European Geheimrat system. The great man seldom saw the patient before an operation. He arrived early at the hospital, scrubbed up and donned a gown that left a length of striped pants showing below. He operated swiftly, with never an unnecessary stroke of the scalpel or a needless word to his assistants and nurses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: The Best Hope of All | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Dive. At Children's Hospital Medical Center in Boston, where surgery on children's hearts was born under the meticulous scalpel of Dr. Robert E. Gross in 1938, Dr. William F. Bernhard wanted to try the Boerema technique. First he went to Newport to ask the Navy for an old compression chamber. The Navy wasted no time telling him to go home: just the tank he wanted had been gathering dust since 1934 in a Harvard lab, only a few yards from Children's Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Therapeutics: Operating Under Pressure | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Nixon's dissector was Howard K. Smith, 48, a grey liberal who joined ABC last February after being let go by CBS because of his unconquerable tendency to overeditorialize. Smith's scalpel was a hastily assembled, half-hour TV panel discussion entitled "The Political Obituary of Richard M. Nixon" and thrust into prime evening time, pre-empted from a Veterans Day tribute called "The Fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Tasteless Post-Mortem | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...what the mentally ill need is "a swifter warmth than most people, even lovers, are prepared to give." The medical staff decides that Istina should have a frontal lobotomy. With the feeling that her personality has been condemned like a slum dwelling, she fearfully awaits the surgeon's scalpel and the terrible peace of mindlessness. But one doctor says no. "I don't want you changed," he tells Istina. "I want you to stay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Inner Pit | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

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