Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wieland's garden was scant and ghostly, was seen only through a veil. He marched his knights of the Grail in from the depths of the huge (200 ft.) stage in near darkness. But even traditionalists had to admit that the result of it all was a Parsifal of strong simplicity, rich with the mystery of its Grail theme. Conductor Hans Knappertsbusch and the orchestra gave a faultless musical performance, and young (30) U.S. Bass-Baritone George London sang a magnificent Amfortas. Glowed Wagner Biographer Ernest Newman, 82, critic of the London Sunday Times and a Bayreuth regular...
...good. ¶ As the number of old people has increased, medicine was ready with a word: geriatrics, a branch of medicine dealing with the ailments of the aged. But geriatricians will be few & far between, says Temple University's Dr. Richard A. Kern. "No one will admit that he is old until long after that fact is obvious to everyone else . . . He who announces the limitation of his practice to geriatrics will probably starve, "† ¶ Three doctors at the Cleveland Clinic think they have found the connection between nervous tension and high blood pressure. They found that brain...
Last week the Pan American Sanitary Bureau had to admit that the experts still do not know how to stamp out jungle yellow fever, though they are learning more & more about it. It is the same disease that Gorgas fought: only the carrier mosquito is different. The only way to check it is by vaccination. Any farmer, woodcutter or orchid hunter going to town for a weekend with the virus in his blood may start an epidemic among people who have not been inoculated...
Hollywood's moviemakers, who are beginning to admit out loud that they cannot lick TV, took another step toward joining it. Winding up a meeting of the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, President (and onetime Georgia Governor) Ellis Arnall announced that the members had voted a unanimous endorsement of subscription television.* "Essentially, television is motion pictures," said Arnall bravely. "There is no real difference. And if subscription television is the way to make them work together...
Some skeptical cosmologists do not admit that the redshift necessarily means that the nebulae are moving. Perhaps, they say, their light "gets tired," losing some of its energy during its tremendous journey through space. Since loss of energy would lengthen the wave length of light, a sufficient amount of fatigue would account for the shift toward the red in the spectrum...