Word: died
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just trying to sort out how I feel aboutwatching this chicken lose its life," Kahn added,saying he had never seen an animal die before...
...Samuel P. Huntington, "Whatever has gone wrong with reform?" Die Suid-Afrikaan, 8, Winter 1986, p. 19-22. Further quotes from this article will be referenced by page numbers...
...provocative argument: longer is not better. But Americans have shied off from similar points made in recent years. When former Colorado Governor Richard Lamm spoke out in 1984 about the terminally ill's "duty to die," his forthrightness seemed eccentric. In his writing, the late Dr. Rene Dubos urged more emphasis on the quality rather than the length of life, but his eloquence failed to generate sustained debate. Callahan, arguably the nation's leading medical ethicist, means to make discussion of the subject inescapable. For 18 years, as director of the Hastings Center in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., he has grappled...
...AIDS or any nonaged patient with slim chances of recovery. "A 35-year-old has not had a chance to live out a full life-span," he says. "Some research may come along in time to save them -- we don't know that they are all going to die." Callahan carefully avoids setting a flat cutoff age, preferring to let the condition of the patient, the judgment of the doctor and the wishes of the individual interact...
...Hirshhorn Museum in Washington shows up the dinginess of most American figure painting in the '80s, so Stella's fearless panache and the profusion of his output refute the common idea that the possibilities of abstract painting are played out. From the fascist lugubriousness of early striped paintings like "Die Fahne hoch" to the galvanic dance of fake-shadowed solids in the Cones and Pillars series of the '80s, from the decorative pastelly flatness of the late-'60s Protractors to the wave of polished aluminum, gray as sea fog, that swells across the wall of MOMA in a magnificent piece...