Word: soother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors might prescribe, for a depressed patient, "two weeks of unsolicited love." This means that the patient's doctor and nurses should treat him with the full measure of brotherly love that he needs but does not know how to ask for. Psychiatrists also use music as a soother, and such "occupational therapy" as publishing newspapers, carpentry and jewelry-making...
...drawings, made during the Nazi occupation of France, were simple, linear statements of the things Matisse likes most to see-flowers, faces and figures. He believes art should be a "mental soother . . . devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter. ... It is through [the human figure] that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life. ... I do not care to repeat [details] with anatomical exactness." The pictures look as though Matisse had been looking at the model, not the paper, and acting out what he saw with fine, free-swinging gestures of his right hand...