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...best work of her career. In 1955 Don Caspar, a young researcher from the California Institute of Technology, visited the lab, and they became close. At 35, Franklin had still never had a fulfilling romantic relationship with a man, and Caspar might well have become her first--but fate intervened. In the summer of 1956, Franklin felt a stabbing pain in her abdomen. It was ovarian cancer, which was well advanced. It was almost certainly the price she paid for having worked so closely with X-ray radiation earlier in her career. She died on April...
What combination of fate, human impulse and pent-up forces triggered such pivotal moments? To observe TIME's 80th anniversary, we plan to offer some fascinating answers in a special issue the week of March 23 in which we'll profile 80 Days That Changed the World. Some had protagonists who would become famous, as in the case of James Watson and Francis Crick, who figured out the structure of DNA, an event celebrated in this issue, but we have identified some consequential days that may take you by surprise, like the Saturday in 1980 when accountant Ted Benna found...
...rhythms of diary writing--often the gaps in Mountstuart's chronicle, when he is too depressed or having too much fun to write, are as eloquent as the words themselves--and Boyd has a biographer's eye for arranging the multitudinous ironies and serendipitous connections that are fate's signature on a long, interesting life...
...even parallels Lucretia's cringing attitude with Christ tormented by Pilate's soldiers. "We begin to feel her distress, her gesture is the same as in [The Martyrdom of] St. Lawrence when there is nowhere else left to go, a final gesture of pleading for escape from your fate." Titian's art transcends violent content and sometimes battered surfaces to seduce the eye with its costly pigments and breathtaking skill. It evokes a world where military commanders love art and Popes make their grandsons cardinals - and then they all line up for a group portrait...
...exhibit’s informal centerpiece consists of four monumental hanging scroll paintings that depict “The Kings of Hell.” In the Buddhist tradition, the Kings of Hell controlled the fate of the dead, judging good and bad deeds and meting out horrific punishments. The scroll paintings – from China, Korea, and Japan – present these scenes of the underworld in similar fashions, evidence of a strict adherence to iconographic convention throughout East Asia. “I hope the viewer realizes that Buddhist subject matter remains the same in Asian...