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...sociological immigrant as well. A recent widower, he repeatedly finds himself in situations where he must adjust to new customs. Sensitivity, he discovers, is outmoded. His physician son Peter sounds like an Army medic when he tells his father to drop his drawers during a urological examination. Daughter Marta, a lawyer, does not ask permission when she moves in to help with the Maison Dixon case. Women have changed in other ways. They are eager to introduce him to tricky bedroom maneuvers. "Did you like that?" asks one. "The wings of a dove," is Stern's courtly answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crimes of The Heart | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...maybe senile, hurts all over. But basically she's healthy." Carried out by burly firemen, Aguayo seemed like a wounded bird with her thin, angular features, frightened eyes and short silver hair. "My hands! My hands!" she cried. She began to vomit as the ambulance sped toward Santa Marta Hospital, the last "open" emergency room of the night. But her pain and terror were apparently caused by hysteria. The woman was sent home within hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Hard Day's Night in L. A. | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

...Marta K. Taylor '92, co-director of Eating Concerns Hotline Outreach (ECHO), says that if she went to a group that did not have the level of training for eating disorders as hers, "I don't know if I would feel I was being heard specially...

Author: By Jonathan M. Berlin, | Title: Trying to Fill a Void, Peer Counselors Offer Advice That The Pros Can't | 4/5/1990 | See Source »

...department is still waiting for a response to a tenure offer extended to Marta Tienda, a University of Chicago expert on Hispanic studies. If Tienda accepts Harvard's position, she will be the first Hispanic woman to receive a lifetime post...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Sociology Appoints Five Junior Profs | 4/4/1990 | See Source »

...Educational reform should not come about inthis paternalistic approach," said Marta Rosa,president of the Chelsea Commission on HispanicAffairs and a candidate for the area's schoolcommittee. "If it's being called a partnership,then let's be partners...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Community Criticizes B.U. Public School Plan | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

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