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...first thing to get a hold on about this book is that from the standpoint of the academic purist, it's not literature--which is hip because it's not supposed to be literature from the standpoint of the academic purist. What it is is a small portrait of a man, a hell of man who also happens to be a hell of a writer...
Although the transplanting of a human heart is the most dramatic feat of today's surgery, it is not the most difficult. From the technical standpoint, implantation of a new lung is more delicate and complex. And it carries an even greater risk of failure because the basic function of the lung is to inhale air from outside the body, thus exposing it to infection by airborne microbes. Of ten human-lung transplants previously reported, most have failed within a few days, and all in less than a month...
...status, the more easily will it attract top students into military careers. Thus, given the services' need for a steady inflow of educated talent if huge, swiftly-deployable forces are to be maintained at all times, the value of the present arrangement with the universities becomes, from a military standpoint, quite clear...
...performances, though uneven in control and focus, all suggest a remarkable investment of energy. There results a sense of restrained favor in the playing which makes up for occasional lapses in comic timing. A great deal of good-natured conviction appears on stage inSchweyk, and from the standpoint again of didactic theater, nothing is so important as this. John Tatlock as Schweyk and Gerard Shepherd as his gluttonous companion Baloun are admirable, though I wished in each case for certain qualities of size, and especially of what can only be called earthiness--which only actors of considerably more...
...MILLIONS of college students are returning to campuses throughout the country to begin the Fall semester. They represent both the hope and shape of the future. From the standpoint of educational opportunities and intelligence, they are far better equipped than any preceding generation to participate constructively in developing solutions to the many complex problems confronting our Nation...