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...they are especially difficult to portray. Solzhenitsyn conveys the prisoners' destitution by alternating between dead pan description of bodily pain and cowering before nameless authorities, and emphasis on the miniscule occurrences that bring relief from suffering. Ivan finds a hacksaw blade, gets a little tobacco, and uses his favorite spoon. These few moments in Ivan's day when he feels he can do something that he wants to do punctuate the bleak narrative description of camp routine...
...curettage, usually done under general anesthesia, has long been used within the first twelve weeks. The cervix, or opening of the uterus, is dilated with a series of progressively larger sounds-thin, blunt-ended metal rods. Then the uterus itself is scraped with a dull-edged curette, a small spoon-shaped instrument, until all embryonic matter has been removed. The entire procedure can take as little as 15 minutes. When it is done under local anesthesia, it sometimes produces painful cramping, but many women can return to their homes or jobs only hours after it has been performed...
Television did not even have radio's early period of individual adventure. It was born full-grown from the head of NBC chief David Sarnoff, with commercial radio's soiled silver spoon firmly embedded in its mouth. It didn't take long to develop I Love Lucy, My Little Margie, and Ed Sullivan's Talk of the Town, In various facsimilies, they're still being aired...
...article on the Jesus people [June 21] was good news. But I read the words of the doubting people with impatience. They want to see mature faith instantly, as if souls were like so much freeze-dried coffee just waiting for the hot water and the swish of the spoon. I hate to see these hard hearts jumping in to squelch a new batch of turned-on people. Faith is an ugly thing to nonbelievers. It hurts to hope for something as big as universal love. It's a pain worth having...
...Kurt Vonnegut, guest lecturer in English in the fall term of 1970-71, once said that Spoon River Anthology is the most important book in American literature. Here is Edgar Lee Masters' vision of what the ghost of "Dippold the Optician...