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• "You call that an experiment? It's not worth bupkes (
emphatically nothing, goat droppings)!"
• "I told my parents I was working with chicken viruses. They
said, 'For this you became a doctor?" They said, "From this you
make a living?"
• "What is this chazerei Gunk, garbage) you call a grant
application?"
• "So, your first experiment looked like a Nobel Prize winner, but
five times you haven't been able to repeat it. Look at it this
way: at least for a moment, you were on top of the world."
• "For eight years I've been working with this farshtunkene
(stinking, contemptible) virus, and I still can't get it to grow. It
hits me right in the kishkes (intestines, guts)."
In sum, Allan Granoffwas the mind, heart, soul, and kishkes of St.
Jude Hospital.