Word: upliftment
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Operations to enlarge or uplift the female breast are a relatively small part of the growing practice of plastic surgeons. But whether a woman's motive is mere vanity or the need to restore the appearance after injury or surgery, there is an increasing variety of materials for building up the bosom. Doctors have tried everything from paraffin and glass balls to synthetic sponges and the patient's own body fat. But in New Orleans last week, specialists at an American College of Surgeons meeting were enthusiastic about a new plastic...
...surgeon, said Dr. Lewis, must create a pocket between the breast and the muscle of the chest wall to which it is normally attached. The uplift device is inserted in the pocket, with its Dacron backing placed against the muscle. Thus the tissues of the breast itself do not come into contact with any mesh or sponge material into which they could grow-only with the impermeable surface of the Silastic bag. A further advantage is that the soft tissue of the natural breast is outward; it feels normal to the patient and facilitates a doctor's examination...
...broad interest. The reader who knows nothing about music will be uninterested in the specific problems of music teaching, music reviewing, and musicology which Woodworth tackles. And the serious listener will find himself bored, perhaps insulted, by Woodworth's not very eloquent statements telling him now music can uplift his soul and how he should be tolerant of twentieth century dissonances...
Morris speaks feelingly of brotherhood, but what he practices is more like Big Brotherhood, the slightly proprietary snobbism of a global planner confined to one squalid room and one underdeveloped mentality. He is a demon of uplift ("talking helps") and tries to tempt Zach's palate with a wedge of pie in the sky-a farm the two brothers will buy and work. But Zach, a man of profound instinctual sanity, is slow to sublimate. "I'm sick of talking, man, I want a woman," he says. Morris fobs him off with a pen pal ("18 years...
...uses only 2% to 5% of his mental capacity. Gallup argues that exercising the intellect with weighty issues will toughen flabby thinking, nourish creativity, enlarge perception. Yet Gallup's own thinking is so vague, his theories so contradictory, that the result is simply a plea for mental uplift with very little to support...