Word: vocalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strander has also used IF with seven children who have an appalling condition called juvenile laryngeal papillomatosis. In this disease, noncancerous, wartlike growths cover the vocal cords of the victim, sometimes filling up the entire larynx so that the child can barely breathe. The only treatment has been to cut them out, but they tend to recur quickly, requiring new surgery; one of Strander's patients had had 400 operations. Here too IF worked, though it was unclear whether its antiviral or antigrowth action was responsible. It diminished the growths in four cases and completely eliminated them in three. When...
...Banditos" ends the first side. It combines vocal rhythmic experimentation and stylized, Spanish classical guitar codas. First Lunch jumps around with some incomprehensible words, then Pat Irwin fills in the cracks with guitar runs. With each chorus, the volume increases and the song ascends another step melodically. Just when things get interesting, it ends. Chalk up one mistake...
...Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA), one of the Pound Seizure Law's most vocal opponents, claims the low cost of pound dogs encourages researchers to use dogs where alternative methods (such as computer modeling or tissue cultures) might be applicable...
Charlwood opens the door to a room containing farm-bred beagles. The beagles respond to the intruders with what sounds like muffled barking, for, unlike pound dogs, farm-bred dogs are de-barked (their vocal cords are several automatically by the breeder. These beagles will probably be used in long-term experiments, but over 50 per cent of the experiments, involving dogs at Harvard are acute...
...boys in the Economics department. As the only tenured radical professor, Marglin is often a minority of one and sees no effort on Harvard's part to find him company. Moreover, Marglin feels the department and the Harvard community unconsciously discriminate against those with liberal political beliefs. From his vocal opposition to the possible appointment of Arnold C. Harberger to the director of Harvard Institure for International Development (HIID) to his support of an affirmative action program for faculty with radical ideologies, Marglin stands apart noticeably from his colleagues...