Word: vines
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even more to be deplored than our tendency to ignore the results of research and evaluation in shaping public policy is our tendency to undertake great and promising enterprises of just this kind only to forget about them and allow them to wither on the vine as other more interesting subjects come along. Let me cite, for example, the research and evaluation programs that accompanied the demonstration projects funded by the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, established in 1961. As few programs in the history of American government, this one set out consciously and openly...
...Whole Story. What makes Cleveland Curator William Wixom overjoyed with his new sculptural group is that it also shows Jonah in idyllic repose under the gourd vine, and includes a freestanding orant, probably Jonah, which Wixom calls "one of the most moving depictions of a figure in prayer in the entire history of art." It is thus the only such group in the world to portray the Jonah story from beginning to end. The works were probably commissioned by an unknown early Christian for a cubiculum. As for the artist, scholarship can only produce guesses; he was almost certainly Greek...
...constantly interrupted by nightmares. Lush gardens with brooks and splitlog benches, dogwood trees and primrose bushes delighted the enchanted while only a whiff away peddlers hawked scented sachets and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The New York Botanical Garden's 500-ft. tropical rain garden, adorned with a climbing cissus vine and rock pool, was back to back with Woolworth's counter, where salesgirls touted 880 packages of Venus Fly Trap, billed as "Nature's Magic Toy," which "Catches insects! Eats hamburger!" At the huge Kodak garden there were nervous flamingos and the Kodak "Smile Girl," who gradually wilted...
...more toward elegant modern museums. In the case of Ellis Island, Johnson decided, the existing turn-of-the-century architecture was scarcely worth preserving, but the nostalgia certainly was. His solution is to take the two major structures, the immigrant station and hospital, turn them into romantic, vine-covered ruins. Pedestrian walkways will wind through the gutted buildings. "The point," he explained, "is to let the spectator himself re-create the feeling of those hard times...
When it comes to correcting the more diffuse type of coronary disease, most cardiac surgeons base their work on a technique first used in 1950 by Montreal's pioneering Dr. Arthur M. Vine-berg. The left internal mammary artery, which is not very important in man, is implanted in the heart wall so that its blood flow may reinforce the coronaries. One internal mammary is big enough to carry an adequate blood supply for the entire left ventricle (the heart's main pumping chamber), and if the blood still does not reach all the starved areas, the right...