Word: isolationism
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August Wilson's first commercially produced work, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, ran more than eight months on Broadway, won the 1985 New York Drama Critics Circle Award for best play and marked the emergence of a substantial new voice for the American theater. A self-taught man who dropped...
Hospitals are finding that animals ease patient isolation, as well as anxiety and distress. Three of the most popular visitors to elderly patients at Beth Abraham Hospital in New York City come from the A.S.P.C.A.: Jake, a bull mastiff; Boris, a 50-lb. Samoyed; and Regina, a tortoiseshell cat. At...
Movies and colorful maps, exhibits and concrete experiments, are like CPR for the senses. Without them, nothing one does with the eyes and hands involves the brain. Education should bring the physical and the mental together. Otherwise the physical becomes something separate, sensory but senseless. We all recognize the dangers...
Fitzgerald's tour of Sun City is equally fascinating. She sees Sun City--and other retirement villages like it--as the most radical of the communities discussed in her book. "Never had older people taken themselves off to live in isolation from younger generations," she writes. Senior citizens living in...
My views were formed during the years I spent on nuclear weapons; in my struggle against testing of these weapons in the atmosphere, underwater or in space; in my public activities and writing; in the human-rights movement; and in Gorky isolation. My fundamental ideas were reflected in a 1968...