Word: talc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lyric poetry of William Yeats presents insurmountable problems to the actor who has not been nurtured on the delicate shadings of verse drama. Faced with elusive changes in meter and rhythm and the even more perplexing mysticism of the Irish folk talc, players often slip into over-emphasis that destroys the delicate blending of intensity and subtlety intended by Yeats...
...absorbed through inflamed skin and had damaged tissues in the pancreas, liver and kidneys. Young babies are especially susceptible, Fisher thinks; he has found no fatalities in infants over seven months. Further finding: there is little danger with commercial baby powders in which boric acid is diluted with inert talc...
...Slitter. As Dr. Thompson describes it, the operation works this way: the heart sac is slit open, then two drams of especially fine talc are spread on the inside of the sac membrane. Fine as it is, the talc acts as an irritant. The sac becomes inflamed and much more blood courses through it; then it adheres to the heart muscle, and its blood-gorged vessels throw out branches into the muscle. These branches increase the muscle's blood supply and, hence, its power to keep the heart beating...
...talc stays there the rest of the patient's lifetime. Technically it is a constant irritant, but the patient is unaware of it. All he knows is that he feels better. Most who have had the operation have been relieved of the agonizing spasms of angina pectoris and the paralyzing fear. Many have gone back to work-one from a wheelchair to loading trucks...
...little used? One objection offered by some surgeons is that while it increases the heart muscle's blood supply, the increase is not strong enough. Cleveland's noted Heart Surgeon Claude Shaeffer Beck invented a powder operation (using ground-up beef bone or asbestos instead of talc), then put it aside in favor of a more radical job-revamping the heart's plumbing system by an arterial graft (TIME, June...