Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beautiful Wrinkles. Eakins was almost too honest for his own good. His great medical paintings, the Agnew Clinic and the Gross Clinic-the most daring works of their kind since Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson-so horrified the squeamish critics that some began calling him "a butcher." His paintings of boaters, swimmers and boxers-superb studies of water and muscle in motion-scorned the theatricality of the Hudson River school. His portraits were so penetrating that few prominent Philadelphians would even sit for him. One man explained: "He would bring out all the traits of my character that I have...
...careened out of control and wrapped the white convertible around a tree. Thrown free and found crawling with one hand to his stomach, the blood-smeared star of Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (which was just 2½ shooting days from completion) was carted to Munich University Clinic, where emergency surgery repaired serious abdominal injuries. Next morning, relieved to hear that his promising property would be back before the cameras by mid-October and with nary a chip in his classic profile, Director Wilder recalled, "We kidded him just four days ago about his fast driving, but Horst...
...French doctors to action and open flouting of the 1920 law. Dr. Lagroua Weill-Halle's own conversion was typical. The daughter of a Roman Catholic Lyon family, she was shocked when she made her first acquaintance with le planning through a visit to a Planned Parenthood Federation clinic in Manhattan: "The desire to avoid motherhood seemed to me monstrous." But practicing in Paris, she met thousands of women who were afraid to have another child because of poverty or threats to their own health. Many had given up marital relations to avoid pregnancy. Even more were considering abortions...
Most significant of all, in Grenoble the first family-planning clinic publicly opened its doors last month. Attracted by the slogan "A Wanted Child Is a Happy Child.'' Frenchwomen filled the clinic. Its 21 volunteer doctors can legally give only information and advice; but, increasingly, doctors are risking their professional careers to write prescriptions for female contraceptives, which still can be filled only outside France. Next step in Dr. Weill-Halle's crusade: a birth-control information center in Paris, soon to be followed by centers in each of France's major cities...
...from the bearlike physique in which he had always taken a small boy's pride. Literary visitors last winter found Hemingway inarticulate and insecure, pathetically doubting not only his current creative powers but the value of all he had ever done. In two lengthy stays at the Mayo Clinic he got shock treatments for depression. Recently, the death of his friend Gary Cooper depressed him further...