Word: moment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast, shifting vistas of fleecy clouds, the softly rolling land is marvelously fat and fertile, husbanded by generations of farmers to support plump cattle and rich green wheat. It is the Stour River Valley, a place of running streams and slow canals northeast of London, and almost from the moment he was born in 1776 John Constable cherished it with an early and sure instinct. "The sound of water escaping from milldams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts and brickwork-I love such things," he wrote. "I had often thought of pictures of them before I ever touched...
...Snow. Half a century before the Impressionists, Constable was fascinated by the effects of light-in particular, light that came from his beloved and changeable English sky. His ambition, he said, was to "give one moment caught from fleeting time a lasting and sober existence." In his sketches are dozens of studies of clouds. He strove to capture the sparkling play of light on leaves, grass and stones. To achieve this, he daubed little blobs of white and color onto his canvases, making no attempt to blend them-as can be seen in his enchanting little study of Rushes...
...federal program launched in 1963, this census will expand even further. Their approach to mental illness seems to contradict much of prevailing psychiatric theory. Crisis intervention assumes, for instance, that the deeply disturbed patient can be snatched at the last minute from committable insanity-and that the last moment may be the best time to try. It argues that relief of the immediate symptoms of profound emotional stress is far more urgent than any investigation into their cause. In effect, it proposes to substitute emotional Band-Aids for prolonged therapy, if Band-Aids will tide the patient over an unendurable...
...this "third revolution" may lie a redefinition of insanity. Crisis intervention already implies this by assigning priority to the patient's crisis, which, at that moment, is more important than understanding what produced it. "Any time a person is desperate, something is wrong around him," says Dr. Frank S. Pittman III, director of psychiatric services at Grady Hospital. "The person says 'I am in an impossible situation' and 'I need help' in several ways-by saying it when no one is really listening, by attempting suicide, by beating up someone or by going...
...Susan Sontag did not exist, the New York Review of Books might have had to invent her. One moment, in fact, not very long ago she did not exist. The next moment she was everywhere-the new darling of the literary set. Norman Podhoretz, author of Making It, Commentary editor and close student of cultural chic, explained the Sontag phenomenon this way: When Mary McCarthy arrived at "the more dignified status of Grande Dame," she left a vacancy as "Dark Lady of American Letters." With a timing she herself would be the first to appreciate, Miss Sontag appeared...