Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DIE IN MADRID. Newsreels from five nations along with sensitive commentary spoken by such distinguished nonpartisans as John Gielgud and Irene Worth, power fully re-create the tragedy of the Spanish people during the wasting civil...
With the development of antibiotics and safer anesthesia, removal of a gall bladder is now a safe though still a major operation. Only about one-half of 1% of patients die as a result of the operation, and most of these are in poor health as the result of other diseases. The President was in good health. Physicians saw no reason to suspect any connection between his gall-bladder trouble and his bouts of kidney stones in 1948 and early 1955; he had made a full recovery from his heart attack, which came later in 1955. The danger...
...used to say that he wanted to die on the podium. "But that would be too embarrassing for the concertmaster. He would have to carry me off the stage. Now I say that I would like to die in my dressing room just after giving the greatest conducting performance of my life...
...pong. But he will take the orchestra on its first tour of Latin America this spring. Then he will move his 104 musicians into their summer home at the new $3,000,000 pavilion in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. "The day I retire," says Ormandy, "will be the day I die...
Perhaps the treatment worked because it showed her that she was not alone; in opera, as in life, lovers frequently jilt their girls-if they don't die first. At any rate, the case is probably the most spectacular instance of the curative powers of opera, although Voltaire later observed that attending it was good for the digestion. Otherwise, the great philosopher had no use for opera. "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken," he said, "is sung...