Word: space
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like Yeats' bird, Casanova does not relate to the present world. A vast space remains present between audience and screen, an acute consciousness of the gap between the work of art and any possible reality. By keeping us at this distance from the dream which Freud proved to be man's fundamental reality--sex--Fellini captures our sole potentially uninhibited creative fantasy. And then he shows us it is no more than show...
TIME has kindly lent me this space so I can thank the many thousands of you who were so kind to write to me after the Olympic Games in Montreal [Aug. 2]. Since it is really very difficult to answer personally so many letters, let me tell you here how grateful I am to you all for your friendship...
...early 1970s, J. Anthony Morris, a respected vaccine researcher working at the National Institute of Health (NIH), began questioning the safety of some vaccines and the effectiveness of others, especially of flu vaccines. His superiors at NIH responded by taking away his support staff and laboratory space, killing his animals and cutting off his supplies. Eventually, Morris was left with nothing but a small office and a telephone...
Finally, to bring matters to a head and your appetite to a loss, Saturday's dinner was that old standby of roast beef au jus, which is served by the kitchens for the same reason that newspapers print big pictures and run columns like this--to take up space. Only kidding now. Please pass the mulligatawny crackers...
...November, 1973, Giles Constable '50, Lea Professor of Medieval History, wrote a letter to Dean Rosovsky and fellow faculty members proposing that Widener be turned into a non-circulating library. The proposal, he wrote, was contingent on expanding Widener's reading space and extending its hours...