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MORE popular than those who claim psychiatry is a fantasy, however, are others who maintain that psychiatrists themselves are crazy. I had originally thought such people were confined to an elementary school art teacher who, upon hearing my father was a psychiatrist, crossed her eyes, twirled her fingers around her ears and yelled, "Wow, is he quackers...
Since at least 1986, female corrections officers in New York City have been told that if they become pregnant, they must have abortions or resign. Many of the women have had abortions. One who didn't was fired for insubordination. The officers, who are suing the Department of Corrections, claim that those who resist are pressured and penalized with irregular shifts, assignments to dangerous and mentally ill inmates and work on barge decks during storms, to name...
...directors alike. Now, with the surprising appointment of Claudio Abbado, 56, to succeed the late Herbert von Karajan at the august Berlin Philharmonic, and the even more unexpected engagement of Finland's Esa-Pekka Salonen, 31, to lead the Los Angeles Philharmonic, two new generations are finally laying claim to the world's great orchestras. Coming shortly after the selection of Myung-Whun Chung, 36, to lead the Opera de la Bastille in Paris, the appointments indicate a fresh breeze whistling through classical music...
...flood of picture taking brought profound changes to magazine illustration. Pictures assumed a narrative life of their own. Photographers were inspired by the analytical vision of abstract art and even more by the use of multiple perspectives in movies. Photography retained its enormous claim to objectivity in recording the world, but personal vision gained a new importance. German critics summed up the rapid evolution with the term Foto- auge (photo-eye), or photography as a mechanical form of seeing...
...Look. The best photojournalists who survived World War II and then Korea were acknowledged giants. The 1947 founding of the photographers' cooperative Magnum had established the principle that picture takers should own the rights to their work. (Previously, rights had belonged to whoever commissioned a project.) Photojournalism could even claim a | theoretical foundation, as in Henri Cartier-Bresson's idea of the photographer as instant organizer of reality...