Word: tenderness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shall have the violence and with it a revised edition of the "Defense of Terrorism." It isn't hard to defend this kind of Schrecklichkelt when the end justifies the means and the only real clue to right or wrong is how your stomach feels. Besides, for those with tender stomachs, there are always evasions, like defining some people as unpersons...
...work at the Musée Luxembourg that Rodin invited him to work in his studio. Brancusi refused. "Nothing grows well in the shadow of a big tree," he said, and spent the next two years working in virtual isolation. His last work in a traditional mode is the tender portrait head, Torment. Then, in 1907, he made the great break with the past that determined the whole future course of his career...
...year when he carved The Kiss. Nothing could be less like Rodin's voluptuous lovers than these stolid, blocklike figures. Where Rodin's lovers flicker and twist, Brancusi's lovers face each other straight on and are barely scratched on the surface of the stone. The tender surface of Rodin's burnished bronze palpitates with life; Brancusi's pitted limestone is all idea...
...there, too, that combat therapy radically and abruptly departs from its civilian equivalent. "Our aim is not to please the patient," - says Murray. "At home, the psychiatrist's orientation is toward kindness, consideration, tender loving care. Here, to be kind would be to send your patient home." The purpose of military therapy, however, is not cure but amelioration. It is to get a disabled fighting man back on the line-or, if possible, to keep him on the line...
Whatever his decision, Kerkorian should be able to wrest MGM's reins from Edgar Bronfman, who is president of Seagram's, chairman of MGM and owner of about 16% of MGM stock. (TIME Inc. owns 5%.) Bronfman strongly opposed Kerkorian's first tender offer but took no position on the second. Kerkorian flew to Manhattan last week to meet MGM executives but kept silent as to whether he will try to oust Bronfman or President Louis ("Bo") Polk from their MGM posts...