Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acres of land, valued at more than $500,000, as a site for the new $5,500,000 Eisenhower Medical Center to be built in Palm Desert, Calif., where Ike and Mamie spend their winters. Earlier, the Hopes had chipped in $50,000 toward the heart, pulmonary and cancer research center...
...labor organizer, George Cook. At the same time, she nurtures incestuous feelings for her brother Tom, who is "like a painted Christ in a blue and pink oleo," a mystic, a pacifist and a lady-killer who bums around the countryside with a harpy seeking faith cures for her cancer. He gets to feel that he is something of a healer himself, and sees people who are not there. For a while, this unpleasant freak and sister Nellie attend something called "the Jago circle," "playing at vice" and "doing things the bourgeoisie don't dare," though what this could...
...indictment of violence as the "cancer" in society, Wertham Believes that there is a cure. It is nothng less than a gradual change in nearly 11 of man's ways of looking at life, at war, at himself. Poverty and racial rejudice are obviously powerful incitements to violence, but so, he says, is the lassie American emphasis on getting head. The individualism and selfishness inherent in an acquisitive society beget a climate of violence, as does hypernationalism. A Sign for Cain will give readers a healthy dose of "the dignity of indignation," but it does not offer much hope...
...Kansas' famed Menninger Foundation, a rangy, friendly Midwesterner who made himself the nation's most dedicated campaigner for better care of the mentally ill, a subject about which he tirelessly lectured government, industry and the public in speeches, articles and books (You and Psychiatry, Understanding Yourself); of cancer; in Topeka...
...professor at N.Y.U.'s Institute of Fine Arts, who cast new light into some dark corners of European art (Caravaggio, Poussin) and identified a 16th century transitional style of exaggerated painting that he called "mannerism," thus providing a key to the change from Renaissance to the baroque; of cancer; in Manhattan...