NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1950 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 686-686

A 2 week Institute in Cerebral Palsy, for qualified physicians, nurses, physical, occupational and speech therapists, social service and guidance workers, and teachers, has been announced by Dr. Philip D. Wilson, President of The Coordinating Council for Cerebral Palsy in New York City, Inc., 270 Park Avenue, New York City. The Institute will be held for a 2 week period beginning Monday, November 6, and will include lectures, clinical demonstrations and seminars. Following the Institute, opportunities for a 3 month in-service training course will be available to a limited number of physicians and therapists.

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1957 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-715
Author(s):  
Helen M. Wallace ◽  
Margaret A. Losty ◽  
David Sanders ◽  
Robert S. Siffert ◽  
Jerome S. Tobis ◽  
...  

This report describes the findings and interim results of a follow-up study of 770 children with cerebral palsy who were cared for under the aegis of the New York City Financial Aid Program from 1945 to July 1, 1954. The findings seem to indicate that some redirection of the program to include development, expansion and improvement of some alternate services within the community is advisable. It is likely that this same type of follow-up study would be of equal value for children of other diagnostic groups, and similar studies might be initiated.


Author(s):  
Jed Rasula

On 17 December 2016, I had the good fortune to see a video installation at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Written, directed, and produced by Julian Rosefeldt, largely in and around Berlin, Manifesto staged thirteen scenarios—simultaneously looped on massive screens in the cavernous armory—in which extracts from nearly seventy avant-garde manifestos were performed by Cate Blanchett, featured in thirteen strikingly different roles. Her virtuosity redeployed even the most emphatic manifesto rhetoric into monologues that seem spontaneously uttered in a series of vivid locales, ranging from a cemetery to a fertilizer factory, a film studio, a drab apartment block, a former Olympic village, a puppet workshop, a recycling facility, and more. Blanchett, in effect, perpetuates the spirit of Fernando Pessoa, as if she were embodying heteronyms, not playing roles. ...


1959 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 95
Author(s):  
HELEN M. WALLACE ◽  
KLAPPER MORRIS ◽  
A. LOSTY MARGARET ◽  
B. SLOBODY LAURENCE

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