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...words to them, given them everything from a boogie beat to a lush 150-piece orchestral overcoating. What had been most melodic in Tchaikovsky's Fifth be came the most banal, and no steady listen er of radio could hear the Romeo and Juliet overture without trying to banish Our Love from his mind...
Bidault's opening speech was cautiously optimistic. Said he: "We have all suffered in trying to banish [war]. Gentlemen, it is now time to begin to succeed...
...built on-campus dormitories, because he thought there was too much disparity between rich & poor in Smith's cliquish off-campus "gold coast," did much to banish Smith's finishing-school atmosphere. Neilson treated his "2,000 daughters"*as intellectual equals, with no pomposity. In his weekly chats in chapel he was as apt to urge them to internationalism as he was to lecture them on their posture, lest they end with lumbago...
Even brilliant epileptics, however, are haunted by fear of fits in public, or of the severe injuries which fits may bring about. In the British Medical Journal Dr. Gerald Caplan suggests a possible way to banish their worries. His idea: to drain off the epileptic's excess electrical energy by giving him an artificial fit "under controlled conditions of time & place" with the electric shock treatment used in insanity...
...professional baseball's one-man judge, jury and police force, Judge Landis had the power to cancel a World Series, banish an owner or manager, void any deal at any time. Truculent, profane, razor-sharp, he had only to look down his nose to make everybody hop. Most times they didn't like it, but his kind of tyrannical power was good for the game, and baseballers knew...