Word: gout
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Unlike most Anglo-Saxons, for whom "taking the waters" went out with gout, Germans today fervently believe that any resort with Bad (meaning bath) in its name is good for what ails them. In fact the spa empire stretches beyond Germany's present borders. From Marienbad, now part of Czechoslovakia, to Baden, outside Vienna, where King Saud, his four wives and entourage are pumping $1 million a month into the local economy, hotel rooms in health resorts are booked solidly through summer and fall. In West Germany alone last year, Kurgäste, or cure-guests, cast $375 million...
...enjoys minor fame as the birthplace of the potato chip. James Gordon Bennett was moved to entitle it "the seraglio of the prurient aristocracy." To the rheumy rich of the '90s it was "The Spa," and its eggy sulphur waters were just the ticket for constipation and gout. But now the seltzer baths belong to the state, and for eleven months out of the year Saratoga Springs (pop. 16,000) is a quiet upstate New York town with no visible means of support. Then August rolls around, and Saratoga miraculously comes alive. Bottles of Bellinger go on ice, stables...
...Argue. Almost immobilized by gout, rheumatism and arthritis, Milhaud teaches in his home, and his own composition is inhibited only by the pain that stops his hand from writing. "I have gotten worse in the past 30 years," he says furiously. "And in this past year, the arthritis has stopped me far too much for my tastes." Still, in his 23 years at Mills he has composed 91 works, and since 1947 he has divided his time between Oakland and Paris, where he teaches composition at the Paris Conservatory...
Oldtime physicians who bled their patients for whatever ailed them, from "the vapors" to the gout, did more harm than good. But modern medicine has not forgotten the ancient practice. A pair of New Orleans researchers reported to the American Heart Association last week that repeated small bleedings have proved effective in relieving the agonizing tightness of angina pectoris and other symptoms of coronary disease-ironically, an uncommon problem in the days of leeching and venepuncture...
...smaller parts are all done very well. The standout is the Orlofsky of Jean Sanders, a wonderfully stylized caricature. Miss Sanders seems every inch a professional, and her rich contralto gives "Chacun a son gout" just the right flavor. Both costumes and settings show up well under an especially good lighting system, and entrances and exits are managed exactly on cue without some of the fuss that attends; them in some theatre-in-the-round productions. One could wish for a more authentic, more piquant savor to the lyrics, but Die Fledermaus remains much like Gilbert and Sullivan: there...