Word: vise
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of the moment had to do with the discussion during the session on Health earlier that afternoon. There had been some strong debate between the two white members of the panel, Dr. John Knowles and Pierre de Vise, on one hand and just about everyone else in the room on the other. Clay had sat in front of a microphone in the middle of the panel table while Knowles and de Vise had attacked the position paper of the Caucus for assuming that an increase in the number of black doctors was an unequivocal good. The question...
...question of the moment had to do with the discussion during the session on Health earlier that afternoon. There had been some strong debate between the two white members of the panel, Dr. John Knowles and Pierre de Vise, on one hand and just about every one else in the room on the other. Clay had sat in front of a microphone in the middle of the panel table while Knowles and de Vise had attacked the position paper of the Caucus for assuming that an increase in the number of black doctors was an unequivocal good. The question...
...more guilt-edged it becomes. Like the author, a Canadian Jew now living in London, he belongs to the generation ("Young too late, old too soon") that grew up without ever getting a chance to go to the barricades, whether in Spain or Israel. Squeezed now in a moral vise between "the old and resentful have-everythings and the young know-nothings," Jake cultivates his own garden, "inflated with love but ultimately self-serving and cocooned by money." Swishing a brandy at his fashionable Hampstead house, he is riddled by an anxiety that retribution is approaching. He looks...
...troubled introspective psyche; Richardson tries to rout his spooks with an anecdotal army of distant relatives. In sum, they create something more haunting than their individual parts. Just before Home's curtain falls, the two men stand apart to the right and left of the stage. In a vise of silence, they gaze sightlessly out at the ever-dimming light. That moment forms an ineradicably poignant image of man's homeless...
Sociologist de Vise cites another dismal statistic: 5% of Chicago's black ghetto infants die before reaching their first birthday-"a higher death rate than in any of the 50 states or any civilized nation." As for doctors, he says, the ghetto has "one physician for every 10,000 blacks, compared with one physician for every 700 whites...