Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before Seurat, builds his woman's figure with much the same solidity, but he toys with reflected light on umbrellas, cobblestones and in the boulevards more realistically than did the later impressionists. Last week the museum unveiled a Rubens Holy Family, depicting Jesus and Mary with Joseph, the infant St. John the Baptist and his mother St. Elizabeth (see color overleaf). Its fiery red, electric blues and ripe flesh tones show why Renoir (represented in Chicago by 19 oils and four drawings) looked to Rubens for inspiration...
...would last out the century. Atomic weapons are perilous enough, Piccard told a symposium at Hoboken's Stevens Institute, but man's whole technology "is little else than a widespread suicidal pollution affecting the air we breathe, the water we drink and the land we till. Every infant born in America today has detectable quantities of DDT in his body." Possibly to get away from it all, Piccard announced plans to submerge himself in a four-to-six-week underwater "free drift" from Florida to Nova Scotia next summer...
Life and death have achieved a new balance in five decades. An infant born in 1916 had a life expectancy of no more than 52 years. This year's child can expect to surpass three score...
...ratio of doctors to patients in Watts was 1 to 2,900," she said, "The infant-mortality rate was almost double the overall U.S. rate. Sixty-eight percent of the children I examined had something wrong with them. Ninety percent had never seen a dentist...
...never seems to have understood the status of the intellectual in British public life. The Establishment has always maintained a sort of marsupial arrangement with members of the intelligentsia. From his well-padded pouch, the infant marsupial may complain about the accommodation and the direction the parent in power may be taking, but that is about...