Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Part of his franchise was to see his master in the most majestic terms, and Bonaparte Visiting the Pest-Ridden of Jaffa, showing the conqueror touching the sores of a hapless victim of the plague, was clearly intended to portray Napoleon as the modern hero sans pareil. But the picture is redeemed by the sharply observed bodies of the stricken. David would probably have laid the scene in a bare hospital room, and Gros considered just that. But feeling the need tor a more theatrical setting for his hero, he conceived of a Moorish courtyard looking out on the ramparts...
...unprejudiced eye can now see that Rosa Bonheur's celebrated horses do indeed rollick with inimitable vigor, a battle scene by Meissonier can be moving, a lush nude dancer by Theodore Chasseriau genuinely sensual. Many people have always felt this, but now they can admit it without seeming hopelessly unsophisticated. Taken together and seen thus, argues Director Anthony Clark, the period was the "proudest century of French painting...
Embassy Snooping. It was the high court that brought the shadowy issue of electronic surveillance into the open in the first place. Last March, in the case of Alderman v. U.S., the court held that a defendant may demand to see the transcripts of any illegal bugs or wiretaps of his conversations, or those of people on his premises. The 5-to-3 decision forced the Government to yield not only its Hoffa records, but also those of ex-Heavyweight Champion Cassiu Clay's conversations with King and Elijah Muhammad.* Yet the Government had a far more important reason...
...skin off my body. Everything was open." No attempt is made to curtail or suppress normal mourning. As they progress, the widows begin to confront the emotionally exhausting problem of rebuilding their social and sexual lives. At first, most are unable to consider remarrying, but they eventually come to see themselves as available single women, although with special memories and, often, children...
...grief cycle, and dislikes referring to his approach as "group therapy" since the widows are not sick in any pathological sense. He notes that military wives generally suffer through a shorter period of acute grief than other women because they "live with a sense of death." He hopes to see his technique used to help many more of the nearly 20,000 women widowed by the Viet...