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...preserves an overall effect that is convincing. The poem, "The Death of a Friend," by Judith Nelson, was chosen by Professors Matthiessen and Levin to be Radcliffe's entry in the Eastern College Poetry contest. It is a mature piece of expressive writing, and consequently a rare and welcome specimen to see in what the editors of Radditudes insist is "not just a girl's college magazine." The richness of texture and the author's mastery of rhythm help to make the poem easily the best thing of its kind that has yet appeared in Radditudes...
...make sure that none of his American customers ever got any such specimen of Greek culinary without being prepared for it, John Cocoris used to explain the mysteries personally to each and every bewildered diner. Today, Greek food is better known in this locality, the Athens, like its neighbor, Jake Wirth's has become a Boston institution, and Cocoris, thanks to his zeal, is a wealthy...
...prove pregnancy in its early stages, obstetricians generally use a simple urine test. In the Aschheim-Zondek test, they inject a female mouse with a urine specimen; in the Friedman test (faster and easier to read), a virgin doe rabbit gets the injection. If the patient is pregnant, hormones in the urine produce easily detectable changes in the animal's ovaries. The Friedman test, which takes two days to complete, can spot pregnancy with 98% accuracy* ten days after the first missed period...
...positively shuddered when ... I looked at that face of Lewis on the front page. To think that a country like ours could produce such a specimen! I am not talking about his physical features, because no man can help that, but our lives are reflected in our faces as we grow in years, and . . . John L. Lewis has developed the cruelty of a man mad for power . . . who cares not what happens to the rest of humanity...
When Madame de Pompadour's pet Comte de Buffon began the first encyclopedic natural history, he simplified his task by casually describing each species in terms of one specimen. Two centuries later, Picasso has embellished the Count's manuscript in the same spirit: by etching each creature with easy, sometimes careless familiarity, as if it were an ancient inhabitant of his own private park...