Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incumbent upon the profession to recognize this death right . . . What is the triumph of a surgically quartered body maintained alive? ... Let us sense those times when we must not reach into the bottom of our medicine bags for agents to whip into a body tired unto death a final, additionally exhausting further fight against death, a death for which the patient is already prepared . . . There are worse things than death . . . There are times when the patient has legal, ethical, moral and religious justification of his request to be allowed to die in peace...
...That was in Leningrad, last October. In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week the violinist gave the composition its U.S. premiere with the Philharmonic-Symphony, conducted by Dimitri Mitropoulos. It turned out to be one of Shostakovich's most powerful works and the finest violin concerto to reach New York since World...
...teacher, Bernstein is intense yet detached, dedicated yet wellrounded. He is contemptuous of the cult of "music appreciation," and thinks that love of music should be as complex and emotional as love itself. "We live in our emotions," he argues, "and that is the area a teacher must reach-and as soon as possible. If you can strike an emotional spark, then you can teach anything...
...plum in the new Central setup; when Young instead offered to get him a partnership in a brokerage house, Phillips stalked out. Phillips, however, says he resigned because he considered Young's use of Alleghany funds in the Central fight to be "improper," although he apparently did not reach this decision until after they quarreled...
...danger is that conferences will be used, not to reach decisions, but to put them off. When a man runs up against a sticky problem there is always the temptation for him to appoint a committee or call a conference to get him off the hook. Says New York Management Consultant Everett Smith: "The average individual is as happy as a clam to hide behind a committee." A variation of the decision-postponing conference is the loaded conference. This is called after an executive has already buttonholed the conferees, thus assured himself that they are in agreement with him. Then...