Word: watchfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Doctors are always on the watch for more and better gadgets - in the operating room and laboratory, in their cars when they set out on emergency calls, or to hook onto the patient himself so that he can continue treatment outside a hospital. Promising new devices in each of these categories...
...culture, the leisure hours stretch out of sight. It is the magazine's ambition to fill every one of them. The current issue, for example, invites readers to make pomegranate jam, build a five-level child's bed, hide the garden gas meter with evergreen shrubs and watch the Karok Indians fish at California's Ishi Pishi Falls. "Everything we publish has to be something on which a reader can take action," says Sunset Editor Proctor Mellquist. "This gives us a very limited role in the field of urban planning. If our magazine has a social conscience...
Bacon paints tragedy, and his works are both noble and enervating. Since he does not believe in life after death, he cherishes existence as a singular event: he is a fatalist taking arms against despair. "Life itself is a tragic thing," he says. "We watch ourselves from the cradle, performing into decay. Man now realizes that he is an accident, a completely futile being, that he has to play out the game without reason...
...Detroit, the papers reported: "Xray pictures of Berra's head showed nothing." Rival players hung by one hand from the dugout roof when he came to bat, scratching their armpits with the other. "Hey, Yog," they yelled. "You still sleeping in trees?" One opposing catcher used to watch Yogi step into the batting cage, then bellow: "Quick, men! Shut the gate! You got him." TV even got into the act with a "Yogi Bear" cartoon series about an animal that walks like...
...submit you have a concealed Jacobite Fellow-Traveler at the very center of your communications network! Fellow students of Harvard, I ask you to beware of these Jacobites! I say the problem is not to "Stamp Out Henry James"--as has been suggested--but to keep a stern watch upon these hidden Jamesians in your very midst! Fraternally, but ominously yours...