Word: cataract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some of his best music to date. A first-act song for six voices, called Circles, has an immediately appealing melody that sticks in the mind as vividly as a Top 40 hit. Later, the music grows longer and denser; by Act III, the piece has become a raging cataract of sound that invokes the spirit of Wagner's Rheingold Prelude: a mighty river at flood tide, frightening in its intensity. The elemental force of his music has made the Baltimore-born Glass perhaps the best-known international exponent of minimalism...
...back, Grady's administrators fear that they may have to turn many poor patients away and eliminate some of the hospital's services. Noting the choices that might have to be made, Yelton suggests, "We might decide to keep the glaucoma clinic but drop the cataract clinic. We would just have to tell the cataract patient, 'I'm sorry. We can't see you.' " In offering reduced services, Grady doctors say, some patients with an easily remedied ailment may not get help until their conditions become far more serious-and also more expensive...
...Cataracts, the clouding of the eye's lens, have blinded millions of people in Asia and the Indian subcontinent. In these areas, surgery costing as little as $5 per patient can remove the occluded lens and restore some vision. Wilson reaches the cataract victims by setting up temporary eye camps in remote villages. There surgeons perform more than 100 operations per day on patients from the surrounding area. When a blind man's relatives lead him in, says Wilson, "they are usually bossing him around, bored with having to care for this useless invalid. After the operation, when...