Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Surgeon-General's report on smoking and health could not have come at a more tragic time. The day after its ominous warnings were made public the Humphrey Bogart Festival opened at the Brattle. The report says that by smoking we may die, but Bogart shows in film after film that without smoking, it is impossible to live. While the ego may heed the Surgeon-General, the libido refuses to spurn the Bogart Mystique. The tobacco companies tell us we are misinformed; there is no choice but to round up the usual suspects...
...conductor. In a single day at the Berlin Festival in 1960, Hindemith conducted four choirs, played a three-string vielle in a recital of 14th century songs, then sat back to listen to the world première of his Motets for Tenor and Piano. "Almost overpoweringly impressive," wrote Die Welt of the new composition...
Anybody who has read the sonnets knows that Shakespeare is addressing a young man and urging him to marry and preserve his line: "Die single and thine image dies with thee." But who is the boy? When did Shakespeare write to him? And who are the rival poet and the dark lady who later appear in the sequence? These murky questions have perplexed generations of scholars...
...flames had burned their way through the floor. So thick was the smoke that Passenger George Chapman was forced to grab a gas mask as he tried to force his way below to his sleeping three-year-old son Geoffrey. "I thought if I had to die, I wanted to die with our baby," Chapman says. "Halfway down, I saw an engineer coming up through the smoke with Geoffrey in his arms. That man saved his life...
Despite such criticism, drastic operations did much good for some patients. The trouble was, no one could tell in advance which patients would die during or soon after the operation, which would develop ulcers again, or which would have a "poor nutritional result" because their reduced stomach dumped undigested food into their small bowels within five or ten minutes after meals instead of a few hours...