Word: talked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parsons will speak on "Social Aspects of Illness and the Role of the Physician," stressing sociological views of the situation in the United States and Russia. The second talk, entilted "The Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Perspective of American and Soviet Societies," will be given by Mark G. Field '45, research associate for the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health...
...interesting than I have ever known it before, and more lively than at any time since the war. The last administration weighed on Washington, as it did on the entire country, like a darkness, like an oppressive bad dream, in which one could neither speak nor act; and the talk and animation in Washington today are a relief like waking up from a bad dream . . . the place is like a Yale-Harvard-Princeton reunion.... It is equally true that, for a graduate of the school of New York liberalism, it is Old Home Week today in Washington." Schlesinger recreates this...
...made him often willfully nasty, less superhuman than inhuman. The scenes with his pretty young paragon of a wife, which were probably supposed to loosen him up, are a total loss, as the young lady has no qualities except loyalty, humility, and a talent for making her husband talk in passionate puerilities...
...began to talk about the courses he taught. "My seminar in the evolution of cannibal weapons, I sort of look at as a lab course. This semester we're concentrating on the properties of curare. I also give the lectures for the first term in Soc Sci 9; I present the Jivarros as a curtain raiser to Western culture--keeps the students from becoming culture bound...
...erupt in an ugly show of violence toward Conner. Symbolically, it is the mock crucifixion of a false Christ. Hungering for the bread of understanding, the old people had been fed the cold tin plates of social progress. Updike unfolds his parable with stylistic elegance. But, too polite to talk about the sin of pride, he gradually throws away his book's sense of purpose...