Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...consultant to the U.S. Army on cold-weather injuries, is a pioneer of the new therapy. Writing in Emergency Medicine, he describes a typical course of treatment. If the victim is still out in the field several hours away from professional help, says Mills, rescuers should quickly attempt to thaw the frostbitten part; one method is to tuck a frozen hand, say, under the rescuer's armpit. The temperature, in any case, should be about 100° F.; anything much higher than body temperature can cause further harm, as can refreezing. To protect the fragile tissue, it should...
...degree of patient connoisseurship (tinged with philatelic mania) that only the old usually have. But late last month a remarkable disproof of the rule went on show at Manhattan's Pierpont Morgan Library: a group of 115 works from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw...
...Thaw, 47, is probably the most successful private art dealer of his generation. His special interest as a collector, however, is master drawings, which he began to buy in the early '50s. The whole collection-including numerous works by Era Bartolomeo, Rembrandt, the Tiepolos, Rubens, Claude, Watteau, Goya, Degas and Cezanne-is to be given to the Morgan Library, and this is its first public viewing. Through 1976 it will be seen, after the Morgan showing, at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the National Gallery of Canada...
...show is not, and could not pretend to be, a history or compendium of drawing. As a collector, Thaw admits his bigotries, and one of them is antipathy to Italian baroque. But in his favorite areas, particularly the 19th century, an exquisitely sure taste has been at work. One would have to go some distance before finding drawings as good as Cézanne's big study of a card player, in which the pencil strokes endow every plane of flesh and fold of cloth with the crystalline solidity of gray limestone; or Daumier's brace of lawyers...
...that drawing is not a slight activity, that small scale can concentrate the presence of an image, just as large scale can expand it. As the Morgan Library moves into its second half-century as a public institution, one could hardly wish it a more delectable present than the Thaw collection...