Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since she lapsed into a coma more than eight months ago, Karen Anne Quinlan, 21, has become the center of an anguished controversy over her right to life-or death (TIME, Nov. 24 et ante). Described by her consulting doctors as being in "a vegetative state," Quinlan is breathing with...
All the resources may never be enough. Ironically, a court decision aimed at improving conditions in local jails probably contributed to last week's explosion. Early in 1974 Judge Morris Lasker ruled that the wretched conditions at Manhattan's House of Detention for Men - called The Tombs - violated...
For eleven days, Superior Court Judge Robert Muir Jr. of Morris County, N.J., pondered the painful, unprecedented legal problem: Did the anguished parents of 21-year-old Karen Anne Quinlan have the right to switch off the respirator that had kept her alive since she fell into a deep coma...
The move to frontier Tel Aviv offered her a new citizenship-but cost her a husband. Morris Meyerson, whom she had met and married in Milwaukee, was less positive than his bride about Zionism. The marriage dissolved; the son and daughter remained with Golda and Morris disappeared into the shadows...
Nor are there any satisfactory explanations for how Karen got into her appalling situation. She was born of unknown parents in Pennsylvania and adopted by the Quinlans when she was four weeks old. The Quinlans still think of her as a friendly, outgoing girl, a fine skier and swimmer, who...