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The Socialized Physician
… increasing and legitimate interest of the organized community in the health of its people, which he traces from … fabric that he must necessarily discard the traditions of competitive practice and become “the social physician protecting the people and guiding …
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Godzilla’s Footprint
… on the ocean floor, the scientist pauses a moment and comes face to face with death in the form of a 150-foot-tall … a force as destructive as the atomic bomb, chooses to die alongside Godzilla rather than risk letting his Oxygen … A mysterious sea monster sinking a ship? Yes, but it was also an unmistakable reference to The Lucky Dragon , a tuna …
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Table for One
… experience. Journalists are synthesizing for a popular audience what historians have long known: Free women make … cultural history of the unattached American woman. The book comes at an opportune time; in 2016, for the first time in … sexually, politically. In the end, Bolick detects a “false binary”:  The choice between being married versus being …
Perilous Lives
… but Mr. Townsend wanted a high vista of the hills he’d been coming up from Philadelphia to hike in since the age of 17. … and a shortie nightgown gathering up implements and ingredients. It’s a kitchen where nothing connects, as if the … scalp. Her wig sits in her lap like a small spaniel. 307-326 By Frances Stokes Hoekstra …
Montaigne Incarnate
… time Montaigne is engaged with Book 3, the essays have become “living organisms . . .impossibilities compounded of … we must take him seriously but not too seriously. He embodies Robert Frost’s prescription for charm: “If it is with … to do. The Essays is not only “The Book of the Self”; it is also “The Book of Humanity.” Montaigne is, to appropriate …
When the Clock Stops
… Books series, and translated into fifteen languages. It was also reprinted in a sixty-cent paperback edition, which I … of obstacles, survived a bull attack, ridden a bicycle, and come to appreciate “the sounds, the smells, the taste and … passing them along as a conduit between author and audience. *  *  *  *   “Let’s try this one,” Russell said, …
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