Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Machine as Master. To decide just when the human spirit is gone, just when the intricate machinery should be turned off and the heart allowed to stop, is far more than a legal problem. It involves the doctor as deeply as it does the patient or his anguished kin. Trained from his first day in medical school that his duty is to save and prolong life, the physician may not only resort to extraordinary measures, but he may continue them even after a flat EEG line (meaning no electrical activity in the brain) has persisted so long that there...
...should have no suspicions of Haley. He was neither a black nationalist (he had written for such "white" periodicals as The Reader's Digest and Playboy) nor what Malcolm called a "house Negro" who identified entirely with his white master. The two men developed a warm personal friendship, and the book benefits from the gifts each man brought...
There are only about 40 works in the world solidly attributed to Vermeer, fewer than half a dozen outside of museums. Highly esteemed while he lived, the 17th century master of Delft was forgotten from his death until the 19th century, only to be rediscovered by the likes of J. Pierpont Morgan, who bought A Lady Writing in 1907. Vermeer, who usually showed his women in profile or looking away, made this lady all the more appealing by turning her full face to the viewer...
Died. Walter J. Tuohy, 65, a merger master of U.S. railroading, who, as president of the Chesapeake & Ohio, proved for all time that two-or even three can live more cheaply than one, in 1963 paired his successful coal-hauling C. & O. with the deficit-ridden Baltimore & Ohio, thus producing a $65 million combined annual profit within two years, and this year (pending ICC approval) adding the Norfolk & Western line to build a network that in track (26,460 miles from Maine to Nebraska) and annual revenues ($1.82 billion) would rank as the nation's second biggest, next...
...become Hogan's Goat (try getting tickets on a weekend), Alfred has been lionized by the New York critics, the national magazines are delirious (imagine a professor writing a Hit), and East Side hostesses are fighting to get the new playwright at their dinner parties. Suddenly Harvard's master of Beowulf has taken on a whole new dimension, and what with Hollywood pounding on his Athens Street door, there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. Will success spoil William Alfred. Will he toss away his fedora, his anecdotes, his Wiglaf...