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BEETHOVEN: THE NINE SYMPHONIES (RCA Victrola; 8 LPs). Another big package, but at the bargain price of $20. Not everyone agrees with Arturo Toscanini's distinctly brisk, no-nonsense approach to Beethoven. About the heroic first movement of the Third Symphony, the maestro once dryly commented: "Some say this is Napoleon, some Hitler, some Mussolini. For me it is simply allegro con brio." Still, Toscanini's brio was like no one else's, and the NBC Symphony strikes sparks as it builds to one peak of excitement after another, and then softly and precisely casts long incandescent...
...Harvard basketball team mounted a second half surge of heroic proportions to overcome a five-point half-time deficit, but Cornell's rugged Walt Eisdail sparked a countersurge which foiled the Crimson in the end, 77-68, last night at Ithaca...
...clotting mechanism in his blood had been knocked out by the failure of his liver to produce the necessary enzymes. His platelets (tiny disklike elements in the blood, which are important in clotting) plummeted from a normal count of 250,000 per cu. mm. to 4,000. This required heroic measures. Kasperak had to have blood transfusions, and to remove metabolic wastes from his body the surgeons punched another hole in him-through the abdominal wall, for peritoneal dialysis. This is a process in which a solution is pumped into the abdominal cavity to pick up waste substances that normally...
...sophomore. His confrontation with a hotel desk clerk reveals a fear and naivete inconceivable in a 21-year-old; and if we accept his high school gaucheness and inability to cope, we certainly can't accept his knowledgeable cool in the toughest strip joint on Sunset Boulevard, or his heroic initiative in wooing Elaine toward...
...protest. Few people understand that students who are seriously considering going to jail are tortured by the choice they face. No one looks forward to spending the best years of his life behind bars. Of course at first he might think of going to jail as a heroic act, as a kind of martyrdom, but as the actual decision draws closer there is nothing attractive about a federal penitentiary...