Word: wounds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast between the dense masses of black suits and gloomy tiers of students, and the swooning white of the patient's thigh surrounded by anxious straining hands and white cloth, reaches its apex in the fresh blood on Gross's hand and the retracted lips of the wound. Such imagery alarmed Philadelphian taste a century ago; The Agnew Clinic was rejected from the Pennsylvania Academy's exhibition in 1891 because it depicted a mastectomy for cancer and was "not cheerful for ladies to look at," an understatement of the first order...
...27th no-confidence motion since he came to office in 1977, and the seventh since he won re-election last June. But this time his chances of survival were far from certain: two members of his own Likud coalition had just defected to the Labor alignment. Still, as he wound up his 20-minute speech in the Knesset, Begin confidently asserted: "The government will not fall today." Then, bracing himself against the cane that he has been using since he broke his hip last November, Begin stepped down from the rostrum to await the roll call. He turned...
...season wound down, even these ambiguities disintegrated in the face of stiffer competition. The 15 goals scored by Penn State were the most by a Crimson opponent in three years. Harvard then proceeded to give up 13 goals in the first round of the Nationals, losing to the Owls of Temple and dashing all hopes of bettering last year's fourth place finish...
...chapter on Edmund Wilson, "The Critic as Wound-Dresser," is overblown and a bit self-serving. Edel refers to the Greek myth of Philoctetes, a great archer who was banished because a septic injury offended the noses of his countrymen. Wilson himself read this as an allegory of the artist as outcast. As embellished by Edel, Wilson the critic is like Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, who endured the stench and nursed the archer. Wound-dresser is a limited and benign definition of a critic who laid open many a reputation with one stroke...
...same could not be said of Russia. "Rasputin took the empire by stopping the bleeding of the Tsarevich," the British geneticist J.B.S. Haldane observed. Alas, the empire was hemorrhaging too, and the hypnotic Siberian peasant only exacerbated that wound...