Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spiriton the part of one other group of people: Charles Engelhard's family and the trustees of the Engelhard Foundation. Not many donors to Harvard, I suspect, would graciously accept such a reaction, agree to cancellation of an undertaking to name the library for their father or the person who established their foundation, and proceed with a gift of $1 million. Anthony Lewis...
...view the judicial resolution of this most difficult and awesome question--whether potentially life-prolonging treatment should be withheld from a person incapable of making his own decision--as constituting a 'gratuitous encroachment' on the domain of medical expertise. Rather, such questions of life and death seem to us to require the process of detached but passionate investigation, and decision that forms the ideal on which the judicial branch of government was created. Achieving this ideal is our reponsibility and that of the lower court, and is not to be entrusted to any other group purporting to represent the 'morality...
Keller added that the committee would "eliminate the difficulty of a single person making the decisions in the department...
...Tony doppelgänger appears beside Andy to take bows at the end of the show. Kaufman insists Clifton is a real person he once mimicked, who is now appearing in person. "Everyone thinks he's me," Kaufman says. "It's really destroying Tony's career." It is clear that Kaufman's comedy in every incarnation is like a full-dress masque that sets new rules, tests new limits. "I never told a joke in my life," he says, with pride. The essence of his gift, the full range of his promise, is just this simple...
...have killed his wife while aiming at him. Discharged from a rest home, he gets the strong impression that his bosses no longer have any use for him, and indeed we see them running his dossier through the paper shredder and deciding to do something very similar to his person. To compound his difficulties, a rather schizzy young woman (Janet Margolin) has mysteriously taken up residence in his apartment (her story of a mixed-up sublease does not wash awfully well). He is also in receipt of a death threat written in ancient Hebrew-not at all the form...