Word: wake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state supreme court's ruling came in the wake of another unpleasant surprise for California psychiatrists: a bill passed by the state legislature setting tight restrictions on the use of shock therapy. The new law states that electric shock treatments can be administered only after "all other appropriate modalities have been exhausted," and then only with the approval of a board of three doctors, two of whom must come from outside the institution prescribing the therapy. But on Dec. 30, two days before the law was to go into effect, a superior court judge in San Diego issued...
This recounting of the worldwide influenza epidemic of 1918-19 not only appears in time for the season's first sniffles but also in the wake of what might be called the new hypochondria. Two famous mastectomies, plus frightening books and articles about heart attacks and the cancer-causing properties of such common substances as asbestos and spray-can propellants have added to our usual anxieties. Yet as millions of people over 60 will recall, for real drenching fear nothing tops an old-fashioned plague...
Peretz's comments came in the wake of the resignation Wednesday of Gilbert A. Harrison as editor-in-chief of the New Republic. Harrison sold the magazine to Peretz last fall, but had intended to stay on as editor until...
Whenever Ford set out on a run, he was pursued by an entourage of family members, friends, hangers-on and Secret Service agents-selected for their skiing skills-that strung out for hundreds of yards in his wake, as though playing follow-the-leader. "He's fast," approvingly observed one ski instructor who tagged along. "He isn't in the professional class, but he's an advanced intermediate...
Ammons came late to poetry. The son of a North Carolina farmer, he studied science at Wake Forest but did not have enough money to complete graduate work at Berkeley in English. He spent ten years selling glass medical gadgetry for a New Jersey firm; characteristically, he did it so well that he ended up as an executive vice president. But like Wallace Stevens at that Hartford insurance company, Ammons wrote poetry in his spare time, published some of it and waited. Then in 1964 he gave a reading at Cornell, and someone asked why he did not teach...