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...Variant Virus. The case of John Richard Russell was an extreme example of a widespread phenomenon: much medical progress in the U.S. owes its success to research conducted on prisoner volunteers. The Federal Government sponsors medical research in 15 of its 37 penal institutions, mostly in the bigger ones, which have their own hospitals and plenty of doctors. Usually the projects are conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service...
After Philadelphia's Dr. John H. Gibbon Jr. did the first successful operation in which the patient's circulation and breathing were taken over completely by his heart-lung machine (1953), variant machines appeared at several medical centers. One of the most successful was built at the University of Minnesota, where Surgeon C. Walton Lillehei had already gone so far as to use another human being as a heart-lung substitute in a cross-transfusion hookup. Heart-lung machines are now so good that at least one operation once rated impossible has become standard in many medical centers...
When any action intrudes upon the sequence, the change is welcome indeed. Here writer Kaneto Kuroda begins to preach, against the evil landlord, the indifferent doctor, the unsympathetic fishmonger. But the constant struggle is the link as well as the main subject of the film. Each variant scene lies apart like an independent engraving, showing only its momentary effect on the couple's lives...
...regards what Cowan calls the stereotyped view of the "white liberal." I nowhere in my letter referred to the notion of "white liberal." I spoke of a particular variant of liberalism whose features I suggested by reference to Baldwin's query of Robert Kennedy's observation on a 40-year time schedule for a Negro President of the U.S. It so happens thatt many Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Negro Americans share this variant of liberalism and I had no intention of reserving it for White Americans...
More specifically, some of the most influential elements among Negro American leadership cling to this variant of liberalism. The fact that its exponents are inter-racial, however, does not make it any more valid in the context of today's world...