Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undoubtedly attractive. Especially promising is his analysis of the ways in which therapy obscures questions of economic justice. However, Lasch supports his argument more with literary, intellectual, and emotional evidence than with material suggestive of social reality; his book seems more the handiwork of an individual mind than a vital analysis of the way people live. In the question of therapy and justice, for instance. Lasch is limited to a citation or two from business school texts on how psychology can be used to manipulate employees; he suggest and asserts rather than develops his case. On other questions, Lasch moves...
...Schroeder's progress, Dolan, along with TIME'S Teresa Barker, has been almost as closely tethered to the Humana press center as the patient is to the machinery that powers his artificial heart. During her long reporting vigil, she has found herself frequently checking her own vital signs. "After six days of nonstop reporting," says she, "most of the journalists covering the implant were ready for intensive care. Any physician walking into the press center would have prescribed immediate bed rest...
...Combat forces should not be committed "unless the particular engagement. . . is deemed vital to our national interest...
...Thomas Starzl, a noted transplant surgeon at the University Health Center in Pittsburgh, argues that "the cost of transplants is no higher than the cost of dying from severe diseases of vital organs." A patient can run up expenses of $250,000 before getting a liver transplant, Starzl points out. Nevertheless, the prices of organ transplants remain staggering: heart transplants cost somewhere between $100,000 and $200,000 (Clark's hospital bill was $200,000, not counting $9,000 for the artificial heart, $7,400 for its pump, and the $3,000 or so per year that it would have...
...SECONDARY, yet vital character in the drama, Kristine (Lisa Freinkel) works effectively to moderate the tension between Jean and Julie. Her performance is low-key enough to keep from becoming heavy-handed, yet powerful enough to give the drama the necessary feeling of religious hope at its conclusion. Kristine's insistence that Jean "look her in the eye" and assure her he is still loyal is unquestionably one of the most powerful moments in the production...