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Another explanation for her dedication is that she has trained as a nurse, a social worker and a doctor (she was nearly 39 when she qualified) and has learned the ways in which love and death are often inevitably linked. She has always had an extraordinary gift for establishing intimate contact with patients, drawing strength from them even as she gives it. She talks lovingly, almost as a mother, of long-gone patients -- Mrs. G., Louie, Ted -- who would listen to her problems and anxieties...
...full of wires and plugs and little bleeping things," says Cancer Patient Ted Hughes, 56. "He was treated like an embarrassment and put in a side room with curtains around his bed." By comparison, says Patient Phyllis Sadler, 87, "I am looked after with such love and kindness here." So well does St. Christopher's revivify its new patients, physically, mentally and spiritually, that 15% of them are soon well enough to return home, even though they seemed only days from death when they arrived. At home they are looked after by the hospice's team of five visiting nurses...
...Morning Ever Comes (1964), Tyler, 46, has held and cultivated her ground (mainly Baltimore, where she lives with her husband and two daughters), aware of but not unduly influenced by social trends and media dazzle. Her work has evolved organically, from relatively simple tales of aspirations and young love to more complex narratives about marriages and the eccentric flowerings of unrealized dreams. To the extent that she writes situation seriocomedy about American families, Tyler has ties to John Updike, although she does not possess his magic flute or his steamy sense of original sin. Also, her rabbits...
...member of a local roadhouse rock band, are futile. The young adults still seem to be attracted to each other, but they are too touchy and impatient. Maggie finds symptoms of the age by comparing today's music with the songs of her generation: "It used to be 'Love Me Forever' and now it's 'Help Me Make It Through the Night...
...need to look at the origins of marital abuse," says Therapist Koval. "The roots of marriage are not in the ceremony and the honeymoon but in the dating period." The best remedy of all may be for couples to take literally a favorite slogan of 1960s peace marchers: MAKE LOVE...