Word: type
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never been much of a secret: Harvard is swarming with dilletantes. For these people the University created Gen Ed coursse, in which academic tablehopping prevents any student from suffering any one type of boredom for too long. When these students grow out of Gen Ed, they don't want courses, they want divertissements; and, like the dilletantes they are, they hate to be left out of a good thing. With only hours away till study cards can be handed in without enlarging the University's already bloated endowment, the Crimson offers a last minute shopping guide...
...Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute introduced another anti-leukemia drug, 6-mercaptopurine. Use of the two drugs in succession, along with prednisone (a cortisone-type hormone) raised the kill to three to five logs. Since 1963, with half a dozen new anti-leukemia drugs available for concurrent or consecutive use, the cell kill achieved in the best cancer centers has reached ten logs, reducing the leukemic-cell count...
...they usually lost." Noting that in credit betting, "the heavy money tends to come down on the top two or three" favorites in a race-which can put a bookmaker on the short end of the odds-he also began buying up cash "betting shops" (120 to date), the type patronized by smaller bettors who are more apt to take on the long shots...
There's a type that's demure And perfectly pure Though it helps quite...
Abram Goldman is a robust and endearing antique dealer with an imaginative zest for life. When he begins to suffer from leukemia, he is treated with the inevitable escalation of drugs, yet his condition deteriorates. His Jewish-mother-type wife and his daughters-one, the narrator, married with two daughters; the other, the novel's problem child, unmarried and with one foot in the Beat scene-observe his gallant but losing battle...