Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...large body of work. Once Brancusi found a motif that delighted him, he characteristically repeated it over and over again, subtly altering and refining its shapes and using different materials to give it new substance. There are 16 versions of Bird in Space. Not all his works, however, share Bird's elegant abstraction or the witty sophistication of Princess X, a subtly phallic take-off on the society-portrait bust. In his native Rumania, Brancusi had been trained as a cabinetmaker, and when he worked in wood, he could express himself with peasant vigor. The jagged forms...
...share with the President the task of extricating this nation from the Vietnam war; and to involve Congress in setting a clear and unequivocal timetable for the withdrawal of American troops from Vietnam...
...roommates sprouted and faded throughout the next week like acne, Tom was evicted from every room in the suite. He agreed to share a bedroom with Crazy Al, who hadn't shown up yet, and applied for the second smallest. "Dear Dave," he wrote, "Crazy Al and I would like to use your room as a double. I hope we can settle these differences and live together amicably. Sincerely yours...
...least not to the degree of the 'postwar Marshall Plan in Europe. "Aid for development," says the Pearson report, "does not usually buy dependable friends." Then why give at all? On the simplest level, the report stated, "it is only right for those who have to share with those who have not." Then again, the report notes, "we live in a village world," where concern with problems at home and abroad is becoming "a political and social imperative." Strongest of all is the pragmatic argument that aid-fostered development will help increase world trade, to the benefit of rich...
...theological students, nurses and social workers gathers every other Wednesday in a room at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital to learn about dying. The seminar's instructors are indisputable authorities on the subject. They are all terminal patients in the hospital who have volunteered to share with strangers the last and most terrifying experience of life. Now in its fifth year, the Chicago seminar has vanquished the conspiracy of silence that once shrouded the hospital's terminal wards. It has brought death out of the darkness. In so doing, it has shown how, and with...