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Many British plays of the past two decades are variations on the same theme -the trauma of the Empire's decline and the perplexing frustration of adapting to new modes of thought. Unfortunately, Rose is vapid. One cannot stir a tempest in a thimble. Davies' Rose is a teacher in a Midlands elementary school who is busily donning her New Woman persona on the threshold of middle age. She insists, perhaps understandably, on being called Ms. Strong, instead of Mrs. Fidgett. This flusters Headmistress Smale (Beverly May) and the older staff, as do her theories of education, which...
...methods have virtually eliminated these risks. Blood is cleansed to remove damaged red cells and other debris. The collected blood can be hung in a plastic bag above the patient's head and transfused by gravity. Autotransfusion is especially suitable where blood loss is great, as in trauma patients or those undergoing cardiac or orthopedic surgery. At Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, where autotransfusion is used in all heart operations, the need for donor blood in such surgery dropped 60% last year. Using the patient's own blood eliminates the possibility that his blood type will...
...homosexuals, but remains a mystery nonetheless. Many can take their preference without a pang of remorse and guilt; they only have to fear the repression and condescension from a society that targets them for debasement. But many cannot evade the question of why they are what they are. Emotional trauma over the stark facts has always led a few to suicide; others have been instilled with a morbid sense of shame and self-hatred. Moral revisionists will no doubt blame such personal tragedies on the evil influence of society and public opinion in defining attitues and constricting freedom of sexual...
...thing about these Southern Writers, of course, is their fabulous underdog literature--a result, popular psychology goes--of the pain and trauma of the Civil War--a regional bad childhood which now, over one hundred years later, still finds expression in the airless vaults of literature. There's Thomas Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy and that huge shadow which is Faulkner. Southern Writers are supposed to be totems of our national pain, and to question their existence as a group becomes something of a sacriligious act. We need this "South" for reasons which are deeply buried. We need...
...early as this spring, Cambridge truants and runaway children may be spared the trauma of juvenile court--instead, they may face panels of three community volunteers each trained in "dispute resolution" who will hear their cases and then refer them to social service organizations for treatment...