Word: dying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep our fingers crossed," Schonberg wrote bravely. But the general feeling around the hall remained darkly pessimistic. The echoes may die away, but the hall will no doubt remain full of dry and brittle chatter about acoustics...
Most important factor of all is the development of artificial sea water. Real ocean water is risky because of the tiny organisms it contains, which die and foul it under aquarium conditions. To overcome this difficulty, several commercial formulas have been developed which can be dissolved in tap water with excellent results...
...team reports in Surgery, that contributes most to the safety of the air. Fortunately, what is comfortable for people seems to be deadly for many bacteria, notably staph. The germs thrive in dry air (relative humidity less than 35%), and in moist air (65% or over). They languish and die in the middle zone. So the St. Louis researchers recommend keeping the humidity control on operating-room air conditioners at the 50% evel-a setting that is best for operat-ng personnel, worst for germs, and moist enough to minimize the ever-present danger of anesthetic explosions from static electricity...
Down on Your Knees. This year is the 150th anniversary of Wagner's birth, and Bayreuth Festival pilgrims whose health can stand it may see, in a single week, the complete Ring (14½ hours), Parsifal (4½ hours), Tristan and Isolde (4 hours) and Die Meistersinger (4½ hours). Among each night's full house are a dozen or so operatic masochists who attend every festival performance every year-an annual dose of 111 hours of straight Wagner swallowed in only 28 days. If this regime is not enough to cure them, there are museums that boast...
...moves every moment in a noble and profound andante. But at the deepest level, the picture is a poem, a mood embodied. The mood is the mood of creature sadness, the poem is a love song to all things that live, a swan song for all things that die. In an old man's elegy resounds the angelus of an age, a passing bell for all mortality...