Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost seemed as if the many surgical specialists of Mass General had been waiting for him for ten years. For all that time, they had been sure of their ability to put a severed human limb back in place, with bones, blood vessels, nerves, muscles and skin all reconnected-but they had never had a suitable case. In most accidental amputations, the limb is too badly mangled, and the patient's general condition too poor. Ev Knowles was different...
...year locusts any good to anybody? Dr. Leland Howard, a pioneer entomologist, decided in 1885 that they might be good to eat. His report: when broiled they are flabby-nothing but skin; most palatable method is to fry them in batter, when they remind one of shrimps...
Kazantzakis knew something of suffering himself. By stifling his own physical desires, he contracted a savage skin disease of the same type that used to rack medieval ascetics. Neither its origin nor its cure is known, and it is commonly called "The Saint's Disease." "My dear sir," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once scolded him, "you are trying to live out of your century. Your body is suffering from remorse of spirit." It was Kazantzakis' belief that only through soul-searing struggle could man approach God. To his eye, the Francis of legend was too mild...
...while it seemed as if modern architecture, led by Chicago's Mies van der Rohe, had found the solution for the modern city: glass skin on steel skeletons combined functionalism and efficiency with esthetic discipline. But at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Architects in Dallas, many members were in open revolt-and two buildings made headlines last week with an eloquence of their own to support the dissenters...
...Charm seems false, because reality-so runs the sophisticated dictum -is unpleasant. Actually, it is a matter of distance from the subject: from afar the faces of the poor (or of the rich) have no features; at a middle distance, they can be charmingly picaresque; at close quarters their skin is seamed with dirt...