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Similarly, Ingrid Andree's Ophelia speaks no documents "in madness, thoughts and remembrance fitted." She is just a plain old garden variety schizophrenic, and not a good clinical specimen either...
Later, Miss Sweden turned out to be a pleasant surprise. Besides being dazzlingly attractive, she was a wonderfully articulate specimen. She would have given the P.R. man a heart attack if he had managed to battle his way into hearing range...
...formed by natural body defenses doing battle with the invading Rh-positive factor. (Parker got his anti-D as a result of a 1947 spinal fusion when he was accidentally transfused with Rh-positive blood.) In the laboratory, technicians use the serum with anti-D to test blood specimens for Rh factor. If clumping occurs, technicians can be sure that the specimen is Rh positive...
Given what may be a prejudice against yearbooks in general, there are still some things that one can like in a given specimen. The writing could be modest and straightforward, telling its story economically and in reasonable depth. It isn't. The photography could be good, complementing the text effectively. It isn't. The factual material could be technically impeccable. It isn't. Taken on its own terms, as importunate Yearbook types have been asking me to do, 325 is not very good...
...Very Odd Specimen. Even in his person, he tried to be true to the "new spirit." One day in Paris, a friend of the painter Fernand Leger said to Leger: "Just wait. You're about to see a very odd specimen. He goes bicycling in a derby hat." Leger waited. "A few minutes later," he recalled, "I saw coming along, very stiff, completely in silhouette, an extraordinary mobile object under the derby hat with spectacles and a dark suit. He advanced quietly, scrupulously obeying the laws of perspective. The picturesque personage was none other than the architect Le Corbusier...