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...attorneys, often strident and harsh, were gentle with Susan, but their questions were in plain English. She told of her affair with Dr. Sam, beginning in 1952, when she worked in the Bay View Hospital run by Sheppard's family. "I was a lab technician, and he was a doctor," she said, as though explaining everything. Their relations continued at fleeting moments until last March, when he took her to the home of a friend in California for a week. Did they share the same bed? the prosecutor asked. She said faintly...
...wants to infuse red blood cells into the veins of an anemic patient. So he takes a pint or more of whole blood and lets it stand. After a while, the red cells (40% of the total) settle to the bottom, along with dead white cells and platelets. A technician draws off the plasma and throws it away. At the same moment, possibly in a hospital across the street, another doctor wants to give plasma to a victim of burns or surgical shock. To save time, he usually gives whole blood, although all he wants is plasma. This...
Both have, in a sense, begun to study each other's case books. For the legal contents at Harvard once was bare of anything that might set law in its economic and social contexts. Law was viewed as something static--the lawyer was a mere technician who had to discover a prescribed set of rules known as the law. The case study method, developed by Dean Langdell in 1870, was central to Harvard's study of law, and most law schools throughout the country have since adopted it. Studying decisions of the past helped the lawyer or judge to find...
...Technician. The ten-volume Study is a huge and complex structure. It is almost a kind of separate literary civilization, with a life of its own. Toynbee, now 65, started to write the concluding volumes in 1947, after a seven-year stint with the British Foreign Office, and with the help of a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Working on the history half days (he is also director of studies at the Royal Institute of Foreign Affairs), Toynbee wrote in longhand with a fountain pen, following a penciled outline he had made in 1927. He also drew on 15 notebooks...
...Nestorian Uighur Turkish secretaries of the Mongols to the Tokugawa regime in Japan to the Argonauts to Kon-Tiki to the Prankish Lex Salica to U.S. television, gives the reader a heady sense of omniscience and omnipresence. Toynbee is at his most fascinating and most expert as a technician of civilization. When he ex plains a civilization's functioning, he evokes the kind of satisfaction that goes with learning the workings of a complex machine, except that Toynbee's big machines are powered by mankind and subject to the tragedies of blood, the triumphs, agonies and ironies...