Word: mortems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although no amount of post-mortem analysis can altogether remove the aura of a grand failure from Carles's work, it now appears, in retrospect, that Carles stood so alone because he was so far ahead. As a young man he had gone to Paris, fallen under the spell first of Edouard Manet and then the postimpressionists, sipped coffee with Matisse and Brancusi. Back home in Philadelphia, where he taught from 1917 to 1925 at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Carles slowly digested his European lessons, then moved on to a symphonic orchestration of colors...
...recent post mortem evaluation of the Yale riots, A. Whitney Griswold, President of Yale, charged the disturbances with prolonging "the infancy" of American university life...
...Republican National Committee plowed into Des Moines through six-inch snows and below-zero temperatures for an election post-mortem last week, the weather matched the mood of National Chairman Meade Alcorn. Ever since Democrats clobbered the Republicans at the polls, Alcorn has been picking apart November's returns for a clue to what happened to the G.O.P. His report: "Our party has suffered a humiliating defeat. We took a bad beating. There are no alibis -but there are reasons...
...nail down the relationship between on-the-job physical activity and heart-artery disease, Drs. Jeremy N. Morriss and Margaret D. Crawford of Britain's Medical Research Council persuaded 206 hospitals to report on post-mortem examinations of the hearts and coronary arteries of 5,000 men, regardless of the cause of death. The findings, reported in the British Medical Journal, show that heart disease occurs in inverse ratio to the heaviness of work. Large, healed scars in the heart muscle-evidence of a long-ago heart attack-were three times commoner in light workers (schoolteachers, bus drivers, clerks...
...spectacle of a public execution has always drawn a crowd, and this one will probably be no exception, even though the witnesses must pay for the privilege. But in the post-mortem many witnesses will wonder what is the meaning of the painful lesson they have just been read. Is it a sermon on the wages of sin? Not really. The heroine, according to the script, is not punished for something she did, but for something she did not do. Is it an attack on the practice of capital punishment? Possibly. But the script spends no sympathy...