Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...M.I.T. (Unicorn). Recorded in M.I.T.'s new Kresge Auditorium (TIME, Dec. 26), records in this series are hard to beat for sheer aural excitement. Roger Voisin and the remarkable brasses of the Boston Symphony add a dimension of rare virtuosity to four modern works in The Modern Age of Brass. Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Op. 109, 110) make the instrument sound iridescent and almost inhumanly-clear, which is as it should be, and Ernest Levy's performance has the ring of truth...
Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments (Nikita Magaloff; Suisse Romande Orchestra conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London). A wry and multigaited 1924 masterpiece, which also reflects the dawning jazz age. Pianist Magaloff makes it lively listening...
...position (on the back with legs flexed on the abdomen) for a woman in the second stage of labor is "simply a newfangled fad," said the University of Mississippi's Dr. Michael Newton. "Sitting, kneeling, squatting or other positions have been used for countless generations'... In discarding age-old positions, have we adopted a technique which is simply more convenient for the mother's attendants?" The primitive positions enable the woman to use her uterine contractions much more effectively, Dr. Newton believes. His prescription: an adjustable back rest on the labor table so that the mother...
...produce. Currently, four Playhouse directors are alternating assignments so that at least three complete units are in rehearsal on the big Hollywood sound stages at once. On the basis of last week's production, Playhouse go indicated that TV drama was at last coming of age...
Virtually all manufacturers are trying to hasten TV's rainbow age with simpler set design and cheaper tubes that may pare as much as $100 from the cost of a color receiver. Bigger cuts will not be forthcoming until the industry can sell at least 1,000,000 sets a year, the point at which it expects to make a profit. For the record, the industry now expects to top that mark...