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...book on Parkinsonism and said he had got the disease from his hunger strikes, adding, "You will become a total invalid, unable to unfasten your own trousers." Judging from what Andrei told me and the symptoms that partly remain (involuntary jaw movements), I think he suffered a stroke or a severe cerebral vascular spasm because of force- feeding or inoculations...
Landes criticized Skocpol's release of theletter as "one more stroke in her war of publicrelations...
While recovering from a debilitating stroke -- suffered in part, says Julie, because her mother read Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's account of Nixon's fight for his presidency, The Final Days -- Pat Nixon was resting on the patio one afternoon in San Clemente, looking through the window into the house where her husband sat. "Watergate is the only crisis that ever got me down," she told her daughter. "And I know I will never live to see the vindication. The thing that's so sad is that I don't think there is a man living who has more...
...when Gropius was appointed as head of the architectural program, the International style received in one stroke the legitimacy it had previously lacked in the United States. True, during this time it was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, another refugee from the Nazis and a former student of Gropius, who would design the greatest edifices of Modernism according to his famous formula "less is more." But it is doubtful that his buildings would have been so rapidly acclaimed without the implicit approval of Gropius and the Harvard name...
...hollowing, modeling and smoothing the "body" of a single mass ran counter to the pattern of 20th century sculpture, which was to construct from disparate parts a shape that did not need to be felt with the hands, one in which sight preceded touch. (Who ever wanted to stroke a Gonzalez or a David Smith?) His impulse to preserve the traditional values of carving and casting went back to his Yorkshire childhood...