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...piano and vocal pieces offered here will strike some listeners as benign imitations of Haydn and early Beethoven. Yet compared with the efforts of other American composers at the time, they are notable in their harmonic freedom, improvisatory style and whimsical subject matter. Epitaph on Joan Duff, for example, is the sweet-and-sour tale of a woman who took a pinch of snuff and sneezed herself to death. This is fascinating Americana, but it is a pity that printed texts of the songs are not provided...
Time of Need. Other doctors, too, are speaking out on the subject. Drs. Raymond Duff and A.G.M. Campbell reported in the New England Journal of Medicine on a study of 299 deaths among 2,171 children treated in the special-care nursery at Yale-New Haven Hospital over a 2½-year period. They found that 43 of the infants died after parents and doctors decided jointly to discontinue treatment. The other 256, who received the best treatment modern medicine could provide, fared no better; few lived longer than the infants who received no special care. Furthermore, their short existence...
...Duff and Campbell believe that in such cases doctors must at least consider whether or not their efforts are in the infant's best interests. "Pretending there is no decision to be made is an arbitrary and potentially devastating decision by default," they write. "It may constitute a victimizing abandonment of patients and their families in times of greatest need...
...beginning of World War II found the company in a peculiar position. Its communications systems were supplying information to German submarines, and its American factories were assembling "Huff-Duff," the High Frequency Direction Finder used by the Allies to save their ships from German torpedoes. This is not one of Milo Minderbinder's fast-buck schemes from Catch-22. It is, in fact, a part of the corporate record of ITT, the American-based telecommunications conglomerate with worldwide interests as diversified as smoked meats and rental cars...
Insofar as this play has a psycho logical terrain, it is limbo. Symbolically, a spiral staircase on the stage ends in midair, leading nowhere. Two actors a brother (Michael York) and a sister (Cara Duff-MacCormick) have been deserted by the rest of their company on a tour of some unnamed country. In panic they improvise "The Two Character Play," a misty memory of a long-past family life in a southern U.S. city that culminated in the murder of their mother by their father and his suicide...