By STANLEY M. ARONSON, The Providence Journal
A massive killer
To a dweller in a temperate-climate nation, the word tsetse has relevance solely when confronting crossword puzzles. To those living in sub-Saharan Africa, however, it defines a terrible human misfortune and is an alternate name for the devil incarnate.
A mad month for sports cliches
Some madnesses are episodic, unpredictable and part of the bewildering fabric of history, but other madnesses are totally contrived by humans and have now become so ingrained in our culture that they appear to have been operative since the dawn of civilization.
A medical school called the Bijou
Ask teen-agers to identify the text site of any line in Ecclesiastes and few would succeed. But ask them to tell the origins of "Play it, Sam," and many could tell you precisely in which scene of the movie "Casablanca" it was uttered. Motion pictures, whether on a large silver screen or on a TV set, remain a major instructor of our young as well as their elders.

