Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...relative or friend-usually meaning the caller himself-is contemplating suicide. At least nine times out of ten an answering psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker or skilled secretary is able to talk the caller out of immediate action and arrange an appointment. Only rarely are the police alerted to trace a phone call and race to the caller's home while he is kept talking. Marilyn Monroe was addicted to making periodic phone calls asking for help from her analyst and friends. But the night she died, she did not call the S.P.C., where the telephone is manned the clock...
...Shadow a Dragon. Until he began winning praise and prizes a few years ago, Gilles was one of the most chronically unsuccessful painters of his generation -and also one of the most enigmatic. He had been a favorite pupil of Lyonel Feininger at the Bauhaus, yet he showed no trace of Feininger's misty geometry. As a colorist, Gilles was a descendant of the expressionists; he also borrowed from Klee, Miró, Munch, and even Picasso...
...deal must be approved by Parliament before it becomes final, but no snags are expected, for in Denmark Mø11er is a national hero. Besides, although Gulf Oil has spent $15 million looking, no trace of oil has ever been found in Denmark...
...life was "valuable and will be needed later." Until they chose a place to live at Estoril in 1946, Don Juan and his family roamed through Europe, as he puts it, "like the wandering Jew." The Reign in Spain. He is a handsome bull of a man, with no trace of the family's hereditary illness. But his younger daughter, Infanta Margarita, is blind. His older daughter, Infanta Pilar, 25, is now completing her nurse's training in Lisbon. Living in Lausanne, Switzerland, is Queen Victoria Eugenia, Alfonso XIII's English widow, 74, regal matriarch...
Says Golding: "The theme is an attempt to trace the defects of society back to the defects of human nature. Before the war, most Europeans believed that man could be perfected by perfecting his society. We all saw a hell of a lot in the war that can't be accounted for except on the basis of original evil." "People I Knew in Camp." What accounts for the appeal? Part of it is, of course, pure identification. A Harvard undergraduate says the book "rounds up all the people I knew in camp when I was a counselor." On another...