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...completely buried implant, used by Dr. Stanley Behrman of Cornell University Medical College. The Behrman method, aided by modern physics, uses tiny (onequarter inch long) cobalt-platinum alloy magnets, the most powerful of their size ever developed. Inserted into the upper or lower jaw, the magnets attract other small magnets placed in the overlying denture to keep them in place. The mesh-covered magnets are strong enough to last the life of the denture-user...
...because chewing sets up great stresses and mandibles change shape over periods of time, the Vitallium lattice tends to become ill-fitting and protrude from the gums. The magnet implant stays in place longer, and observations over a five-year period show no loosening or irritation. Says Dr. Behrman confidently: "This is a technique with a future...
...ridiculous to the nearsublime. Along this scale were works by three B's--not the original trio of Bach, Beethoven and Berlioz (the last of whom a fourth B, Hans von Bulow, changed to Brahms), but a new group comprising John Bavicchi 4G, Bertram Baldwin '58 and David Behrman...
...first movement from Behrman's Quartet for Piano and Woodwinds (1957) betrayed a fondness for the high pinched notes of the flute. The composer can learn from this the ease with which the bottom half of the flute range can be smothered by other instruments. Structurally, the piece was too episodic, with many stops and starts, and it ended rather unconvincingly. More variety of articulation would have helped, too: it was almost all brittle staccato, with no really lyrical phrases...
...David Behrman '59's one-movement Piano Sonata displayed the common fault of changing material too often. Though the music was busy, the ideas (save for the opening few notes) lacked an individual character. I felt that I was listening to a series of transitions that had no origin or destination. There was not even a real end; the piece seemed to break off abruptly...