Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ford station wagon and attempt to capture the movements of people. This is the Coca-Cola of my life. But as I work I can feel large round eyes watching my every move. Hungry children have large round eyes, and there are lots of hungry children. One person dies every eight seconds from malnutrition, and many of these people are children. And so in a very real sense, these little lives which are never lived are manure for my own life. They die, and I worry about them and film my worries...
...Within the next year," said Thompson, "some of us will die, others will be maimed, in a war which has been declared a mistake. And yet it continues. The war must end now, and the fight for our cities, for our nation, for our people must begin." As their degrees were awarded, some of the new Yale graduates released helium-filled blue balloons that soared into the June sky; Thompson's somber message would not disappear so easily...
...happened, the spirit of open communication in the ward created a new problem: the patients started asking "Am I going to die?" Klagsbrun's recommendation: each patient should be handled in a straightforward manner, but one that he could most easily accept. Often the patient himself provided the clue as to how the question should be answered. When one told Klagsbrun, "Doc, I've never felt better," the psychiatrist knew that the man needed to delude himself about the true nature of his condition and could not cope with the truth. On the other hand, Klagsbrun felt that...
...made some unexpected progress. With life rapidly slipping from her, an old Italian woman called to a nurse one day. "It is the end, isn't it?" she asked. The nurse nodded, sat next to the old woman and held her hand. "I don't want to die alone," the old woman said. "You won't be alone," the nurse replied. Ten minutes later, the old woman's labored breathing stopped, with the nurse still holding her hand...
Under the lash of critical rejection, Edel suggests, James' "feelings returned to childhood hurts." He harked back to earlier stories like The Pupil, whose moral Edel reads as: "Little boys die because they assert their claim to live." James not only returned to the terrible world "of blighted childhoods," Edel observes, he frequently practiced a sort of "spiritual transvestitism" and returned in the form of a little girl. In James' creative world, "little boys died. It was safer to be a little girl. They usually endured"-as in The Turn of the Screw (1898), possibly the best short...