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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which Columbus "discovered America"-actually the British Bahamas-could be considered flexible. It derives from the old Julian calendar and would be Oct. 23 in the new. Similarly, Washington's birthday was originally recorded as Feb. 11, since the old-style calendar was still in use when he was born...
...their own actions cannot shape their lives. Consequently, they withdraw into a living-death fantasy existence characterized by fear and stony silence-or, at best, by unintelligible animal noises. Unwilling to admit their own existence because they fear that the outside world will destroy them, many autistics refuse to use the pronoun "I" if and when they do speak...
...bedpost. Given to maniacally destructive outbursts at first, Joey slowly quieted under Bettelheim's care. From machines, the boy switched his self-identification to eggs and chickens, which at least were living things. Literally returning to infancy during psychotherapy, he put the second fantasy to ultimate use. On the day Joey first crossed the border to the world of humans, he crawled under a blanket-covered table, cackled excitedly, flapped his "wings," then grew silent. "I laid myself an egg," he said moments later. "Then I hatched myself and gave birth to me." Joey spent six years...
...National Heart Institute is barely halfway through an ambitious project to evaluate four drugs for possible use in preventing heart attacks by lowering the level of cholesterol in the blood. Last week a preliminary-premature, said some doctors-report raised hope that one of the drugs may already have prevented some attacks...
There is no mistaking Bulgakov's target in The Heart of a Dog: it is the boorish, overweening, ignorant, slogan-stuffed Soviet proletarian. Bulgakov wrote this short, scornful novel in 1925, drawing on his inexhaustible supply of contempt. Its method is the "fantastic realism" he was to use later in The Master and Margarita. Matter-of-fact becomes matter-of-fantasy; madly grotesque events are described in the language of naturalism...