Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pages; $75) only to find that its subject is not choochoos but birds-members of the family Rallidae, including rails, coots and gallinules. No matter. It is impossible to be disappointed by this handsome book. Smithsonian Institution Secretary S. Dillon Ripley has brought his ornithological expertise and years of patient watching to bear on these elusive creatures. The 41 color paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne are reproduced so sharply that light seems to glance off eyes and feathers. Ripley furnishes all the required taxonomy for experts-and some doleful news for everyone. Because they fly poorly, these birds are easy...
...helped create a political environment conducive to new initiatives by the Middle Eastern leaders. In his trips to the area and in his home-front version of shuttle diplomacy between Washington and the United Nations, he established himself as an honest broker, trusted by both sides. In his methodical, patient, lawyerly fashion, he led his Arab and Israeli counterparts through a hard-headed analysis of the political and territorial issues dividing them. The result was a clearer appreciation that traditional confrontation tactics, combined with a reliance on outside mediators, had run their course, and that the time had come...
...preprogrammed numbers-an ambulance service, say, then a doctor's office-and sounds the appropriate taped message for each. Samples: "There is a medical emergency at the home of John Smith. Please send an ambulance immediately." "Dr. Jones, there is an emergency at the home of your patient, John Smith, and an ambulance has been summoned...
...justice would have, the patient fans at Watson were finally rewarded by Harvard's last tally, a picture score with 2:03 left to play. Amazingly, both teams were at full strength...
...other contemporary American poet has written more urgently and directly about this fatal shunt than Anne Sexton. Her poems were torn from her life as a daughter, housewife, mother, lover, mental patient and custodian of what she called "the excitable gift." The phrase is from her poem "Live," from a collection that embraced such titles as "Wanting to Die," "Suicide Note" and "Sylvia's Death." Plath (1932-63) and Sexton (1928-74) were friends who spent hours discussing their art, illnesses and the ways they would kill themselves. Yet it is difficult to read Sexton's correspondence...