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...profound emotional stress--is here traced directly to one of the era's popular books on philosophy; in addition, Hildesheimer observes. Mozart's first composition after the letter was "A Musical Joke." Hildesheimer also presents his own interpretation of Mozart's notorious tendency to indulge in "fecal comedy." The crude giggly figure of Mozart seen in Peter Sheffer's play "Amadeus" is, it seems, part of the unsavory reality of history. Other half-truths are taken up along the way and variously dispensed with: for anyone but a keen follower of trends of Mozartian interpretation, such discussion obtrudes more than...
Rivalry is fun, but racial slurs are crude in any context...
...brought Jarvik and DeVries together was Dutch-born Surgeon and Medical Engineer Willem Kolff, 72, who calls himself "the oldest artificial organist." The founder of Utah's artificial-organ program got his start in the field by creating the first artificial kidney, a crude dialysis machine he pieced together from cellophane and other simple materials he found in Nazi-occupied Holland in the early 1940s. He designed his first artificial heart in 1957 when he was at the Cleveland Clinic. It sustained...
OPEC is counting on a surge in demand to firm up prices. For several weeks, oil refiners have been shunning OPEC crude and drawing down their inventories at a particularly rapid clip-some 4 million to 5 million bbl. per day-in anticipation of price cuts. At some point, the refiners will have to start rebuilding their stocks. In addition, the emerging economic recovery in the industrial nations could spur oil consumption and send prices back...
...Soviets have a pressing need for foreign exchange to finance purchases of food and technology from the West, and oil exports account for half their earnings of Western currencies. The drop in oil prices, accordingly, has been devastating for the Soviets. Each $1 decline in the price of crude deprives Moscow of $600 million to $750 million of hard currency. To compensate for this loss, the Soviets have been trying to sell more oil to the West. But as every good capitalist knows, one fast way to get sales up is to cut prices still more. Good Communists apparently know...