Word: phrasing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Britain's famed 18th century plastic surgeon John Hunter once summed up his professional philosophy in a single curt phrase: "Why not try?" Today's reputable plastic surgeon is less impetuous. Aware that he often operates within surgery's twilight zone-past the point of obvious physical need-he is inclined to weigh his would-be patients' motives. For advice in sticky cases, he may turn to a psychiatrist. Members of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery recently did just that when they invited Dr. Wayne E. Jacobson of the University of California...
...since last January, when Representative Reuss (D., Wisc.) asked Congress to sponsor a study of a "Point Four Youth Corps." Although $10,000 was appropriated for research, the proposal got little further notice until Senator Humphrey (D., Minn.) introduced a bill to establish immediately a "Peace Corps," the phrase that Kennedy later used...
...Missouri, Representative Charlie Brown, who managed Stu Symington's unsuccessful campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, had no better luck with his own campaign for reelection. The winner: Republican Durward G. Hall, a handsome, conservative surgeon who. in the Ozark phrase, is a "gravel bar speaker...
...would never write another opera, Verdi was drawn to Nabucco in spite of himself. After he reluctantly agreed to read the libretto (by Temistocle Solera, a minor 19th century poet), he found himself writing "one day a verse, the next day another; one time a note, another a phrase, and little by little the opera." The subject was a natural for mid-igth century Italy: the captivity of the Jews under King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, reminiscent to Italian audiences of their own fate under Austrian rule. The third act chorus of chained prisoners, "Va', pensiero" ("Go, thought, on wings...
...bare proposal and the evocative phrase were all ford discussed, but in fact Meyer's thinking goes far dispatch Abolition of the draft, he had suggested, would, in the long run strengthen both the army and the nation. Some people had noted, simply aren't able to fight...