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German Composer Friedrich von Flotow (1812-83) wrote about a score of operas for the theaters of Paris, but only Martha remained in the repertory. As late as the 1920s it was a smash at the Met, with Caruso periodically igniting the house with the tenor aria "M'appari." The only other scrap of the opera likely to be familiar to modern audiences is The Last Rose of Summer, which Flotow lifted from a book of Irish folk songs, where it was known as The Groves of Blarney. When Berlioz heard Soprano Adelina Patti sing the air, he remarked...
...sacred cows, took pen in hand and signed a $90 million deal whereby two U.S. companies and one British firm will build Argentina's first petrochemical plants to produce synthetic rubber and industrial chemicals. In many Latin lands, such action would have brought out the mobs to smash windows and shout "Yankee, no!" In Argentina, conditioned by three years of watching Frondizi leap from crisis to crisis like Eliza crossing the ice, there was no visible reaction...
...Fats. Keys's findings, though far from complete, are likely to smash many an eating cliché. Vitamins, eggs and milk begin to look like foods to hold down on (though mothers' milk is still the ticket). Readings of the number of milligrams of cholesterol in the blood, which seem to have value in predicting heart attacks, are becoming as routine as the electrocardiogram, which can show that the heart has suffered a symptomatic attack. Already many an American knows his count, and rejoices or worries depending on whether it is nearer 180 (safe) or 250 (dangerous...
...tools of the high-energy physicists are enormous machines?cyclotrons, synchrotrons, linear accelerators?that smash atoms and subatomic particles to bits and expose them to study. Already, the physicists know of some 30 particles that form atoms or can be knocked out of them by high-energy collisions. The great challenge confronting the physicist is to formulate sets of laws describing the interaction of such particles and, at an even deeper level, to explain the reason for their existence. Therein lies the key to the understanding of the matter?and of all nature...
...thoroughly bad egg. But, curiously, even some of his critics pay him at least one grudging compliment: despite his many faults, they say, Jimmy Hoffa always takes good care of his Teamsters. Last week a federal grand jury in Florida leveled charges against Hoffa that, if proved, should smash forever the notion that he cares a hoot about the welfare of his union's members...