Word: pinkham
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Works of Daniel Pinkham and Gunther Schuller--Brown Hall, New England Conservatory...
...largest collection in the documents room is that of the Lydia Pinkham Medicine Company, a nineteenth century New England pharmaceutical firm, founded by a woman, whose successful cure-all elixir may have consisted largely of alcohol. The papers of Sarah Perkins Gilman, after whom the current Radcliffe lecture series is named, are nearby. She was the first woman to write about economic discrimination, King says. To eliminate such discrimination, she advocated kitchenless homes and the subcontracting of all cooking and other kitchen work...
Unfortunately, as innocent as such a solution may seem, it is filled with as many perils as, well, a 19th century medicine man's wagon. In the case of cancer, quack remedies involve more than bustled ladies sipping alcohol-laced Lydia Pinkham's compound or husky baldpates rubbing themselves with hair-growth oil. They are a cruel hoax that distracts cancer patients from possibly effective therapy. Even if it were accompanied by a caveat, an FDA stamp of approval for Laetrile would draw still more cancer patients away from conventional treatment-with disastrous consequences. Says Dr. Vincent DeVita...
Relay Station. The same Romantic awe at the rolling ocean that fills Al bert Pinkham Ryder's Toilers of the Sea, 1880, runs through the work of John Marin right up to his death in 1953. It also provides an essential clue to early Pollock. The immense, horizontal still ness of 19th century plains landscape floods the work of Georgia O'Keeffe...
Boston Camerata performs vocal and instrumental chamber music from the 17th and 18th centuries. Daniel Pinkham, guest conductor. Sanders Theatre...