Word: testament
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hint from Medicine Men. Meanwhile, the chemical war against cancer took a strange turn. Scientists are now experimenting with an ancient remedy well known to patent-medicine makers: the mandrake, or Mayapple root. For centuries, men have regarded the mandrake with awe. Old Testament writers mentioned it with respect as a fertility symbol (Rachel purchased some from Leah at the price of Jacob's spending the night in Leah's tent). Medieval men, certain that there was something odd about mandrake, believed that it would shriek in Gothic agony when pulled out of the ground...
...burying his son,* suffering from attacks of carbuncles that sometimes covered him from head to foot, grinding away at economics so that he could "prove" (in Capital) that capitalism was inevitably doomed and that socialism was its inevitable successor, lashing his enemies with invective sometimes worthy of an Old Testament prophet and sometimes unprintable. When he was buried in a cemetery in Highgate, London, only eight friends were at the grave...
...casual reader assumes something unusual has been written. When this book is not replete with scenes of sex (although one such story included might recommend the book on this basis), the bystander should be poring over its contents to find the reason for all this publicity. In "The Purple Testament," he will find himself perusing not outstanding technical composition but written fragments...
...lucid best. Readers who have long shuddered at the jabberwocky of "dialectical materialism" will find this book's opening chapters a clear, practically painless exposition of Marxism's fundamentals. But Author Miller's efforts to find common denominators between the Communist Manifesto and the New Testament are less successful. Christians, says he, would be better Christians for studying Marx because Christians must act in the world...
While permanent plans for the Kirkland memorial are still rather nebulous, in a more informal but equally sincere tribute, the 1947 "Deacons Testament," Kirkland's yearbook, has been dedicated to the 27 men lost by the House...