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...Robert S. Litwak and his colleagues at Mount Sinai designed the new system to meet two requirements: 1) it had to relieve the left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, of as much as three-quarters of its work load, and 2) it had to remain in place in case it should be needed again. The system they devised is installed while the patient is still hooked up to the heart-lung machine, which takes over the function of these organs during open-heart surgery. First Litwak and his team insert two cannulae, or tubes, of flexible silicone...
After the death of Stravinsky in 1971, Carter emerged as the most important composer in the U.S. To the uninitiated, his recent orchestral and chamber works can sometimes sound like the serial music of Arnold Schoenberg spun out to infinity by a modern-day sorcerer's apprentice. To those who listen hard and well, they constitute some of the most profoundly evolutionary, if not downright revolutionary, music of our time. It is somber, dark music that is not primarily intended to provide instant pleasure. Composing thus, Carter is a true child of the age of anxiety, but in matters...
...Crane-DeGuiglielmo split the city council has suffered from a political divisiveness that renders it helpless in coping with Cambridge's major problems. The shattered body has already gone through twice as many city managers since Crane left than it did in all the years that he reigned. Chamber of Commerce President Robert Jones criticizes the council for playing politics above all other concerns. "City Council just doesn't have a leader in the crowd. Many are unhappy as it is but others just revel in it," Jones says...
Although the retired Eisemann now claims to have exercised no interest in Harvard Square politics and never held a position in the Chamber of Commerce, several Cambridge reformers insist that he was a force even Crane had to reckon with. He still exerts influence as treasurer for select CCA candidates on the Cambridge ballot...
Former Mayor Edward A. Crane '35: "I'm not talking about a God or a Franklin Roosevelt stepping out of the woodwork either," Chamber of Commerce President Robert A. Jones says. "What we need is another Eddie Crane. He could get the coalition together to get something going at Kendall Square...