Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room, Dr. Salk's secretary handed him a test tube bearing the youngster's name and control numbers. Time and again, in answer to an anxious "Wotta they gonna do?" she explained the procedure softly and reassuringly. Working in twos, nurses slipped a needle into a vein in the hollow of the child's elbow (what doctors call the antecubital fossa) and snapped a vacuum seal. Immediately the tube began to fill with blood. Most of the youngsters watched with impersonal detachment, and girls were no more upset by the sight of blood than boys. (These blood...
...song, entitled "Lamp in The West" with music by Horatio W. Parker and words by Ella Higginson, began in this vein...
Nine years ago this relationship was discussed in a slightly different vein. At that time the eight presidents of the so called Ivy League also surveyed the undergraduate sporting scene and were as distressed as Stokes by what they saw. Professionalism, commercialism, and over-emphasis were terms used to describe the surge of "big-time" athletics they felt was sweeping post-war America...
Organ Music by Modern Composers (Richard Ellsasser; M-G-M). Some of the gaudiest organ sounds outside the Roxy are mixed with some in a more reposeful vein in these nine pieces. Among the best: Bartok's En Bateau, a flashy, seasick impression of a boatride; Copland's Episode, a neat vignette that builds from nearly nothing to a roiling climax; Milhaud's delicately tinted Pastorale; Messiaen's mystical Le Banquet Celeste...
Professor Tracy gives many examples of Savage's poetry in The Artificial Bastard, and his well reasoned interpretations of such passages show the stages of his subject's mind. In the Wanderer, Savage imagines himself a divinely inspired poet. The Bastard glorifies his illegitimate birth. Much in the same vein as Edmund in King Lear, he cries," Blest be the Bastard's birth! He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; no tenth transmitter of a foolish face...