Word: charting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convention of nurses at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, "have seen the patient who is slowly dying of a chronic, debilitating illness and has been placed in the room farthest from the center of the ward. The doctors drop in briefly during rounds, glance at his chart, and leave almost immediately. The general attitude of the ward is: There's really nothing we can do for him-after all, he's dying anyway.' " This attitude is as appalling to many physicians as it is to just about all ministers of religion. But what...
...probably rank above the rest on the influence chart. One is Joseph Pechman, 46, the short, greying economist at the Brookings Institution, who importantly shaped the form of the tax cut and now is lobbying for a reduction in excise taxes. Pechman went to the University of Wisconsin with Heller, landed his first Government job (in the Treasury) through Heller after World War II, now frequently discusses the economy with the CEA chief. Specializing at the moment in federal-state relations, Pechman this week will hand to the President a lengthy report that recommends methods for channeling a portion...
...leading ground gainer and scorer with the J.V.'s last year, Kohlmann was placed on the fourth team in this summer's pre-season depth chart, behind fullbacks Pat Conway, Stan Yastrzemski, and Lloyd Macdonald...
...smoker's habit is stronger than his fear. Cigarette sales started to rebound within three months, by last week had returned to the high levels of a year ago and were still on the rise (see chart...
...with metaphors and allusions. Pinter cultivates a whole thicket of symbolic references to vision, light, and self-knowledge: Edward's eyes hurt; the matchseller seems blind; the day is the longest in the year; Edward prefers the darkness of the house to the sunlight; and so on. Trying to chart this jungle would be a presumptuous sort of auto-analysis from which I will excuse myself--anyone who sees A Slight Ache should read the play and attack it with his own interpretive machete. And that "any-one" should be everyone who appreciates soundly produced modern theater...