Word: socialized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group of medical and 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...
...last analysis," wrote Marcel Duchamp, the most cerebral artist of the 20th century, "the artist may shout from all the rooftops that he is a genius; he will have to wait for the verdict of the spectator in order that his declarations take a social value and that, finally, posterity includes him in the primers of art history." Right now Oldenburg-and some of his fellow Popsters as well-seems assured of a place in the primers...
...most visible apostle of using ecology for planning-and turning a profit in the broadest sense. As an example, his book describes how his firm planned a scenic highway on New York City's increasingly squandered Staten Island. To find the best route, he mapped every physical and social feature in the area, in-eluding slopes, soil foundations, forests, scenic and residential values...
Some of the criticism, of course, comes from Establishment friends of Profumo, who has been working hard at a social-welfare settlement in London's East End since resigning from public life. Class considerations aside, many in Britain simply feel that Profumo has earned the right to be let alone. Some also raised a broader question of the citizen's right to privacy, a right not guaranteed under British law. As politicians talked about such a statute, freewheeling Fleet Street winced. But Lord Devlin, retiring chairman of Britain's Press Council, told the newspapers that the issue...
Pucci came to the calling by which he is best known almost by accident. His education was more appropriate for a scholar than for a designer: he holds an M.A. in social science from Reed College in Oregon and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Florence. Pucci joined the Italian air force in World War II and garlanded himself in medals and citations as a bomber pilot. With the war's end, he settled in Switzerland, living the good life on the slopes. It was at St. Moritz that a roving Harper's Bazaar photographer...