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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eight hours of Orff is simply too much!" The speaker, a tall, lank-haired man in tweed jacket and maroon wool shirt, was none other than rehearsal-weary Carl Orff, Germany's most famed modern composer. Hours, or even minutes, of Orff have indeed often proved too much for some tradition-minded audiences in Europe and the U.S. But last week crowds were thronging to the Stuttgart Opera House for a solid week of Composer Orff's works, including his latest: Oedipus der Tyrann, a highly individual dissertation on the Sophocles tragedy...
...love and to be loved," Dr. Menninger writes in the American Journal of Psychiatry. "But when it comes to hope, our shelves are bare. The Encyclopaedia Britannica devotes many columns to the topic of love, and many more to faith. But . . . poor little hope*... is not even listed." Often the downgrading of hope was not by accident but by design. Most of the great Greeks held that fate was unchangeable, so hope was an illusion and therefore evil. To Aeschylus it was "the food of exiles," and to Euripides, "man's curse." And 2,500 years later Nietzsche echoed...
...often after major surgery, especially among elderly patients in accident cases, there is truth in the sour jest that the operation was a success but the patient died. Last week, in the London medical journal Lancet, two physicians described a method of treatment that slashed the death rate among such patients at Birmingham Accident Hospital in England's Midlands...
Commonest cause of death in these cases, they found, was blocking of a pulmonary artery by a traveling blood clot that had developed in the leg veins. This often undetectable process killed 40%-50% of patients over 50, who died after fractures of the leg, thigh or pelvis. So Drs. Simon Sevitt and Nrall G. Gallagher took 300 consecutive admissions of patients over 55 with broken thighs, and treated half of them with the anticoagulant phenindione to see whether it would prevent blood clotting and the fatal lung damage...
Throughout the year, the full extent of the free world's progress was often clouded by worry over the economic threat of the Communist nations. The Soviets and their satellites made fast progress. But the free world traveled faster. The record was plain in the soaring production statistics, the freeing of currencies from tight controls, and in the fact that the "economy of abundance," once a U.S. phrase and fact, was visible in other lands...