Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic, and I know that if I were to vote for a presidential candidate, his religious affiliation would not in the least affect my vote. I believe, and I am quite sure my opinion must be shared by many, that a man's political shrewdness is a thing that is governed by his own knowledge and education, and if this person is capable of doing his job, he will do it regardless of his religious beliefs...
...listeners. "And the people in front of him just don't want the world right now," explains a worried Humphrey advocate. In his offstage moments, Humphrey himself senses the public's present wariness of pie-in-the-sky liberalism. "It's the most dangerous thing in the world," he says. "That's what happened to Stevenson...
...Hottest Thing. "Right now," says National Cancer Institute's Heller, "the hottest thing in cancer is research on viruses as possible causes." The Rockefeller Institute's Dr. Peyton Rous showed as long ago as 1911 (his findings were unpopular at the time) that one cancer (sarcoma) in chickens is caused and can be transmitted by a virus. Over the years, viruses were found to cause other tumors in birds and lower animals. But the gap between them and man seemed unbridgeable. Then the University of Minnesota's Dr. John J. Bittner showed that breast cancer in certain...
From Poison Gases. Chemotherapy, broadly defined, got its biggest boost in 1941, when Chicago's Dr. Charles B. Huggins reported that prostate-cancer victims did better and lived longer after castration. The important thing was not the surgery, but the chemistry-removal of the main source of male sex hormones. Similar but less marked benefits resulted from "chemical castration" by administration of a female hormone. In women, some recurrent breast cancers were retarded by female hormones and others by male hormones. But these treatments relied on natural body chemicals, not synthetic magic...
...nobleman of Mozart and da Ponte, with his thousand and three mistresses. (One suspects that the Don Juan story figures in the play less as its actual inspiration than as a unifying device, a splendid resource for theatrical and intellectual trickery, and a handy handle to pick the whole thing up by.) It was not the sexual aspect of Don Juan that interested Shaw primarily. (Indeed, it was not the sexual aspect of anything, even of sex, that interested Shaw primarily, in spite of occasional protestations to the contrary.) "Philosophically," says Shaw...