Word: daedalus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thriller (Can Al reach his friend?), part mystery (What happened to Birdy?). It is also an extended memoir of growing up poor in the 1930s, a detailed portrait of a friendship as firm as it is unlikely and an utterly plausible account of an unbelievable obsession. In classical mythology, Daedalus made wings for a practical reason, so that he and his son could escape the labyrinth. Birdy, it turns out, has built wings too, but craved much more. In his cage, he remembers: "I'm also finding it isn't so much the flying I want...
...Icarus and Daedalus flew, "the ploughman stopped his work to gaze, and the shepherd leaned on his staff and watched them, astonished at the sight, and thinking they were gods who could thus cleave...
...need to reassert humanist considerations in medicine is a recurrent theme in the latest issue of Daedalus. The journal includes essays by 20 of the most influential members of the American medical establishment on the state of their art and of health care in general. Steven R. Graubard, the journal's editor, writes that the issue is a first step towards redefining America's health problems. But the problems already have been redefined. The major obstacles to health have changed without sanction from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. While the Daedalus articles do not present any very...
...redefinition" of health care in the latest Daedalus points up a growing recognition among the medical establishment that more pure science is not always better medicine. The increasing emphasis on human understanding in medicine may now prove as important in improving health as the hot pursuit of science already...
Coriolanus by Shakespeare/Beethoven. Directed by Peter Sellars. Jan. 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 7:30 pm in the Loeb Experimental Theater. Tickets free at box office the day prior to the performance. Dracula lurks in wait for you. Thrills to go with the chill in the air, courtesy of Daedalus II, a new Boston drama company. Playing at 367 Boylston St., Boston Thursday and Friday at 8 and Saturdays at 7:30 and 10:15. Through Jan. 29. For info call...