Word: drip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artists. At the other end of the artistic spectrum, the Tate Gallery in London announced that as the first work to be hung in its new American Wing it had acquired a swirly 1949 abstraction by the late Jackson Pollock, who is still the unsurpassed master of the "drip method." In neither case did the museums have to dip into native funds. The Wyeth was a gift of former U.S. Ambassador to Norway L. Corrin Strong. The Pollock was bought with money donated by Pickle and Soup Tycoon Henry J. Heinz II through the American Friends of the Tate...
...coreligionists in an 1185 A.D. pogrom in York, England, rather than have them tortured or converted. After this follows an inexorable litany of torment, in which generation after generation of chosen Levys are burned, torn apart by horses, slashed by Cossacks, impaled on stakes, or drip-tortured in eyes, ears, mouths with molten lead. The rare Just Man who dies in bed regards it as God's inexplicable little joke...
Kinda was happy enough as a drip-dry diplomat until he suddenly encountered a new group of Congolese in the U.N. corridors. He was aghast when told that "they alone" represented the government of Kinda's hero, President Kasavubu, while his master Thomas Kanza was supporting wild-eyed Premier Patrice Lumumba. Next, the dazed Kinda learned that "neither Kasavubu nor Lumumba was anything any more, and a colonel I didn't know was in command of the Congo...
...that it may take days of continuous treatment to knock out all the rapidly reproducing cancer cells. In that time, the drug will kill so many normal cells that the patient's life may be threatened. Why not, asked Dr. Sullivan, give the drug continuously by arterial drip, but switch off its damaging effects every few hours by injecting an antidote...
Food, drink and ordinary medicines, explained the bishop, must not be denied such patients, but "to subject the very old to the acute discomfort of a serious operation or of feeding by intravenous drip would seem to be morally wrong. Such means should be used only where there is reasonable hope of recovery or where some benefit of happiness is conferred on the patient." Out and out euthanasia, said Bishop Mortimer, is no longer "a live issue" in Britain, but doctors are certainly justified in relieving their old patients' suffering, even if this should hasten death...