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...creates a picture of lower-class Londoners that jumps and twitches with life. Author Tilsley is no delicate craftsman; England is vastly overstocked with novelists who write silkier books. But compared to Tilsley, most of them seem pale fellows indeed. He has, as an English critic has said, "that uncommon thing, the Common Touch...
Jorgensen acknowledged in his articles that his organs had been normal in the first place. But many readers jumped to the conclusion that his was one of the not uncommon cases of pseudohermaphroditism (organs of one sex so malformed or concealed as to be mistaken for those of the other), or one of the rare cases of true hermaphroditism (possessing the gonads of both sexes). In either instance, the operations would have left Jorgensen a girl, or a reasonable facsimile thereof...
...Tulane University neurosurgeons described a simple and seemingly successful way of treating syringomyelia, an uncommon but hitherto baffling complaint in which a cyst forms in the spinal cord, gradually causing paralysis. The technique involves using a wire of the modern wonder metal, tantalum, to keep the cyst open and draining. Unlike materials previously used, tantalum does not change in the body or interfere with body tissues. Three living testimonials appeared at the New Orleans meeting...
...airlines, on the other hand, do not suffer from the one great disadvantage of the aircraft industry, that of a comparative insecurity based on a fluctuating national defense budge. It is not uncommon to see half of one company's engineering staff hired by another because the second organization has been awarded a large government contract and the first had a contract discontinued...
Professor Joseph Wood Krutch has outlined one of the main causes of our moral, spiritual and cultural deterioration [TIME, Jan. 19]. The Common Man is becoming all too "common" in both senses of the word. If education does not return to its basic function of "leading out" the Uncommon Man from the mass of anonymous mediocrity, we shall soon be complaining with Ortega y Gasset of the ausenda de los mejores [literally, the absence of the better ones...