Word: domestica
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...insect pest, for example, must first be compared and classified before it can be efficiently combated. Evolutionary changes, which only careful comparison can verify, have appeared in some species since the type specimen was first chosen, a century or two ago. And, though any curator can catch a Musca domestica (or housefly) in his own soup, he would probably give his right ear to have the original type. Among other items selected for bomb-sheltering from the Smithsonian collection (valued at $300,000,000 but irreplaceable, says one of its officers, at three times that figure...
Mitropoulos wowed his first Manhattan audience by performing, from memory and without baton, a tough and little-played work, Richard Strauss's Sinfonia Domestica - 45 minutes of sound representing a particularly lurid day in the Strauss family. Mitropoulos wowed his orchestra too, although some of them resented having to work hard for a change...