Word: bowels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent radicals offended Alinsky's sense of pragmatism. He had no patience with either revolutionary black separatists or white hippie dropouts because both "dogmatically refuse to begin with the world as it is," scoffed at pure theorists because "a movement without organization is nothing more than a bowel movement." When asked about death, Alinsky replied: "They'll send me to hell -and I'll organize...
...operation should be attempted only in rare cases complicated by such problems as high blood pressure or diabetes. Dr. J. Howard Payne of Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center regards it only as a last resort for the "morbidly obese"; he has performed 180 of the bowel bypasses and lost five patients since 1956. He has declined to operate on thousands of others...
...Catholic of the subtitle is Dr. Thomas More, a collateral descendant of the saint. He is also alcoholic, and, at 45, his health and equilibrium have become very shaky. "At the time that I developed liberal anxiety," he mourns, "I also contracted conservative rage and large-bowel complaints." Much of his time is spent mooning over three dizzy young girls whom he loves equally in a rather abstracted way. Deeply skeptical of human solutions, he nevertheless deludes himself that he can heal the modern soul with an invention which he calls the lapsometer. Like a latter-day Descartes focusing...
...then followed up the inoculations by cross-injecting the patients with white blood cells from fellow patients who had presumably been sensitized to the tumor antigens. Though only long-term testing will tell if Humphrey's approach is effective, the preliminary results appear promising. One patient with bowel cancer has been free of the disease for three years, while three others have evidenced definite remissions...
...matter-of-fact permissiveness about sexuality, and straightforwardly attacks a variety of common myths. But the book has probably infuriated as many readers as it has enlightened. "Human destiny," writes the author at one point, "is constant, relentless copulation"-unintentionally implying that sex is almost a reflex function, like bowel movement. Elsewhere, Reuben suggests that Coke is "the best douche available." REUBEN...