Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playing basketball with some friends the day after Christmas," Dixon said yesterday, "and I slipped on some water." A trip to the Temple University hospital followed the mishap, and Dixon ended up in a cast, which was removed yesterday under the guidance of Harvard doctor Arthur Boland...
...Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor by Diana Trilling. The murder of Herman Tarnower and the trial of Jean Harris are given a shrewd, unforgiving analysis by a critic with literary and moral sensibilities...
...their spacing and contour, depending on the dynamics and frequency of the music on them. Lintgen says that grooves containing soft passages look black or dark gray. As the music gets louder or more complicated, the grooves turn silvery. Percussive accents are marked by tiny "jagged tooth marks." The doctor correlates what he sees with what he knows about music, matching the patterns of the grooves with compositional forms. In a way, it is like reading a graph of a given work's structure. What is amazing about Lintgen is that he can read it so rapidly...
...doctor limits his deciphering to recordings of orchestral works from Beethoven on-an area of the repertory he knows especially well, and one where the pieces are more individual in content and dynamics than in the relatively rigidly structured classical period. Vocal music is more difficult because all voices produce similar grooves...
Lintgen also draws the line at certain contemporary works, such as those of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen. "That," says the doctor, "is not music." But he can spot such forbidding or lesser known compositions as Messiaen's Turangalila-Symphonie or Alan Hovhaness's Floating World "Ukiyo." "Those two were my best accomplishments," he says, "unless you count the time I recognized a recording of Beethoven's Fifth from across the room...