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By fall, though, the surgical wounds had broken open and become infected. Still brooding about his father's death, Fred went back to the hospital, where his condition steadily deteriorated. After consulting with Hematologist Joseph M. Hill, Baylor surgeons decided to fight the infection with antibiotics and to reopen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hematology: What Stopped the Bleeding? | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

The orchestra did its part quite competently, but it too was limited by the unvaried character of the opera's dramatic tone. The orchestral music's motives are oppressively repetitive and emerge invariably as either climactic or brooding themes, and as a result do not guide the dramatic progression. The...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: The Cursed Daunsers | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

The abstractness of the opera's characters and the aura of tension which the music drapes upon them create for the drama a mystique like the one it borrows from medievalism. The substance of that mystique is its steady assertion of the opera's profundity through such abstractness and brooding...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: The Cursed Daunsers | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

Daughter Kattrin is a war-victimized mute with a desperate love of children. In Brecht's mordant view, kindness is voiceless in the world. Kattrin performs the only noble and impassioned act in the play when she mounts a platform and beats out a drum tattoo warning a sleeping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Intellectual Firestorm | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

The proudest marque in auto racing is the rearing black stallion insignia on the hood of an Italian Ferrari. "Racing amuses me," says Enzo Ferrari, 65, a brooding, irascible genius whose rivals call him "the Monster of Maranello." At his plant near Modena, he turns out some 750 marvelously hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Another for the Monster | 4/5/1963 | See Source »

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