Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...virologists, trying to figure out what to do. One bright suggestion, from state health officials: try giving only 1½ drops (Vw cc.) of vaccine, instead of a whole cubic centimeter, to stretch the supply. Furthermore, inject it not into the muscle, as now, but under the skin or between the skin's layers (in hopes that this is less likely to provoke paralysis). At week's end the advisers and PHS decided against this course because it is untested...
ADVENTURES IN THE SKIN TRADE AND OTHER STORIES (275 pp.) - DylanThomas -New Directions...
...poems, collected in a single volume in 1953, have gone through a spectacular seven printings. Records of his booming readings have become bestsellers (TIME, May 2). Now more scraps of Thomas' vivid prose have been put together and issued in a single volume called Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories, and his letters are finding their way into print. Dylan Thomas is more alive today than any living poet now writing verse...
...hours to get from one end to the other. I stop at the pub and get back for lunch. In the after noon there's nothing to do, so I work." About Danny Boy. The Thomas legend will be enhanced by the three chapters from Adventures in the Skin Trade, and the 20 stories published with them. Many a poet, when he writes prose, sounds as stodgy as a beached carp, but Thomas easily swam through prose, with a flashing of fins and a show of unexpected twists that could have made him famous as a prose writer...
...also a lonely misanthrope who saw the world and himself with intolerable clarity. After one three-day binge he groaned to a friend: "To be able to tear off my flesh, to get rid of this awful, horrifying skin we have . . ." He once wrote, melodramatically but perhaps not inaccurately: "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval . . ." In the poems that will remain long after the last alcoholic insult to that skin he loathed, there are many victories...