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World War I and its bitter aftermath brought forth a new art in Germany. George Grosz's work, which has its roots in the Berlin Dada movement, attacks postwar German society with a viciousness that spares neither the Prussian military nor the lowest member of the Lumpenproletariat. Otto Dix's caricatures are equally bitter -- Dix spares not even himself. The differences between Nolde's and Dix's self-portraits illuminate the difference between the moods of pre and post-war Germany. Nolde's is brooding and mystical, with a hint of secrets yet to be revealed. Dix turns the full...
...findings, reported at a medical meeting in Copenhagen, grew out of studies of TRH's pharmacological effects on laboratory animals. When these experiments showed no apparent side effects from the substance, the team administered it to 18 women suffering from severe depression. In a preliminary test at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., eight of the women who received a single injection of TRH experienced prompt, though in all cases, short-term improvement...
...subsequent studies, also at Dorothea Dix Hospital, ten other women responded equivocally to saline injections, but favorably to TRH when the two were administered in alternate sequence over a two-week period; no other medication was administered. Other experiments conducted independently reinforce those of Prange and Wilson. A team of researchers headed by Drs. Abba Kastin and Rudolph Ehrensing at the Veterans Administration Hospital in New Orleans reported in Lancet that its members administered TRH to five patients. All experienced relief from depression to some degree, and in at least two cases the improvement was marked...
...Dix Hills...
...education, "we studied E.M. Forster but not Virginia Woolf. We read Thackeray, who was splendid, but not Charlotte Bronte, who was considered eccentric, minor and dull." In history, too, the emphasis has been changed to the study of "invisible women" whose achievements have been largely forgotten: Dorothea Dix, whose exposes revolutionized conditions in mental institutions a century ago; Sojourner Truth, a former slave and influential abolitionist who was received by Abraham Lincoln and later appointed "counselor to the freed people"; Maria Mitchell, who discovered a new comet in 1847; Belva Lockwood, activist lawyer and candidate for President on an equal...