Word: spleening
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...find the "editorial" much diminished. It is still the same old horse-manure though; gracious knows why the editors cling so tenaciously to their cretinish little jester and that tired bird. The introduction to the "publications guide" chides freshmen with some grace and gentility. But Ibis's witless spleen can only remind us that Lampy wil probably remain the most literate of Harvard's prep-school fraternities, but only the ingrown toenail of her literary corpus...
...treatment had failed might be kept alive for several years by operations more drastic than any so far attempted. He began, usually in cases of stomach cancer, by removing most of the stomach, half of the left lobe of the liver, the body and tail of the pancreas, the spleen, the transverse colon and part of the abdominal wall. Of the first 100 patients, 19 lived for one to ten years, including a laborer who went back to doing a full day's work (TIME, March...
Blues for Mr. Charlie, by James Baldwin, sabotages most of its own good purposes. It means to be an eloquent cry from the heart of the Negro's hurt but spends itself showering rhetorical spleen on the white man. It aims to seize the conscience but grabs the playgoer's lapel instead, like a standing grievance committee. It strives to be fresh, but its story of Southern shotgun justice is overly familiar, and what powers Mr. Charlie is not its topical subject but a contemporary mood, the taut-nerved spirit of violence that seethes through the play...
...Multiply. The spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow manufacture white blood cells of a type known as lymphocytes, which are loaded with antibody ammunition to battle any invader. They attack a transplant much as they would fight an army of diseasecausing virus particles. But transplant patients' lymphocytes show more hostility to cells from some donors than from others. Dr. Kurt Hirschhorn and Dr. Fritz Bach of New York University School of Medicine noted that when lymphocytes from two people of widely different ethnic groups were put together in a test tube, the cells became overactive; they enlarged and multiplied...
...well take further lessons from News editorials, which are usually short, sometimes outrageous, but always understandable. The News's editorial page pulls a thumping 60% of its readers-well above the national average-by offering some of the liveliest reading fare in the country. When not venting its spleen on its favorite villain ("Killer Khrushchev," "the butcher of Hungary and Ukraine," "Red Hitler"), the News indulges its own peeves, such as the United Nations ("throw the bums out"), or directs a fervent plea to American ingenuity to solve a serious technical problem: how to keep small boys' trousers...