Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bustling activity about the place, a liveliness that is surprising because the rustic building is a nursing home. It is one of an increasing number that are teaching their patients to get up and live rather than follow the old nursing-home formula of lie down and die slowly...
...suffered severe head injuries in an automobile accident, and had undergone three brain operations plus extended treatment in a hospital, was sent to Whitaker on the theory that he would soon die and needed only minimal care until he did. Though the boy had failed to regain consciousness for six weeks, the staff at Issaquah immediately took special interest in him. He got all the standard medication for someone in his condition. But beyond that, staff and family were instructed to talk in his room as if he could hear them. Daily, remarks and greetings were directed at him. Some...
KING AND COUNTRY. Director Joseph Losey (The Servant) takes an excruciating look at a World War I deserter (Tom Courtenay) who is doomed to die, and at the anguished officer (Dirk Bogarde) who is doomed to defend...
...once wrote. Even so, Americans and West Germans have al ways suffered, while enjoying progressively greater comforts, from the conviction that they should utilize their material prosperity for higher ends. To meet the demand, Lyndon Johnson prescribed the Great Society. Last week Ludwig Erhard called for the Teutonic equivalent: die formierte Gesellschaft -literally, the formed, well-ordered or harmonious society...
...futility of such attempts at martyrdom. Where dissent is harshly silenced, spectacular means of protest may be needed; within the ample means and methods of U.S. democracy, a human voice means more than a human torch. "The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause," Psychoanalyst Wilhelm Stekel once said, "while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly...