Word: needed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...need not always live by bread alone. There is something else. We do not yet know what it is; but some day we shall find out; and then we will live on that alone; and there shall be no more digging nor spinning, nor fighting nor killing...
Eakins came to his insight the hard way-through his own dashed hopes and disillusionments. His distinguished teaching career at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts had ended abruptly when he insisted on the need for students to draw from nude models. His great medical pictures, The Agnew Clinic and The Gross Clinic-which would serve as touchstones for a later generation of realists-had been greeted with critical jeers. He rarely sold a painting, subsisting on a small private income. The year before he met the clerics, his father had died. Eakins himself was an agnostic...
...Towbis if he could guarantee her safe conduct for the month; another teacher updated his will before leaving home in Tennessee and took out a $37,000 life-insurance policy. Towbis, who is working for a doctorate in education at Berkeley, brushed aside their fears. He insisted on the need for daily immersion in slum areas to "understand the kids' background from working in the ghetto instead of out of sociology books...
...teachers, the new system means that they can earn higher pay if they choose to work the full year, or work only the required three quarters at their regular salaries. To date, so many have chosen to work all year at extra pay that there has been no need to hire additional staffers. Teacher Jeanine Lewis of Grady High School says the new courses "keep me from being stalemated, and they add spice for the students, too." Mrs. Lewis believes the new system will also help dropouts ease back into school during the more casual summer quarter, when teachers...
...general rule is that no animal dies of old age. But the whale may come as close as any. For the whale has no "natural" enemies, in the sense of larger animals that habitually feed on him. Only when young or when attacked by his own kind does he need to flee. Though scarred by the sucking disks of the octopus, bitten by the squid, carrying the buried bills of swordfish, a few of this year's crop of calf whales may survive to be 75. But most of those that escape the whalers' harpoons will succumb...