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...them in connection with their own lives. Militant Negro leaders are beginning to feel that perhaps the only way of making the connection is at gun point, by using violence in self-defense: by demonstrating that if things don't get better soon, the Negro community may well erupt...
...various, said Dr. Pariser, that a physician may confuse syphilis with acne, chicken pox, measles, mononucleosis or cancer. He estimated that from 40% to 60% of syphilis victims pass through the primary and secondary stages without knowing what has hit them. Then the spirochete goes underground, to erupt at intervals over the years in new active phases. Finally, in about half of the untreated cases, it attacks the heart and aorta, the brain and spinal cord. If the victim does not die of heart disease, he may end his days as a lame, blind, insane, partially paralyzed patient...
...impassioned aria to the health of his mistress-ant. He had scarcely finished when the restaurant proprietor brushed the mistress-ant from tablecloth to floor and stepped on it. The baritone dropped dead, the brasses blazed, and the audience swung into one of the liveliest musical brawls to erupt in Germany in years...
Gravid Times. Von Doderer knows his city intimately and writes of a time when that city was politically gravid. Yet his people have virtually no political awareness. The two political riots in the book do not grow out of the book, they erupt into it. In fact, Von Doderer's judgment on his people may be that, ignoring the urgencies of their time, they failed to safeguard the best things in it. But half a million is a lot of words in which to make that point obscurely. One wag has dubbed the book "the Ninth Symphony of Viennese...
After a summer devoted to the dolce vita, volcanic Soprano Maria Callas, 37, prepared to erupt for the first time before the cameras. Reportedly bankrolled by her great and good friend, Maritime Moneybags Aristotle Onassis, Maria is planning to make a film version of one of her most successful operatic roles, Cherubini's Medea. Setting: Milan's La Scala, not far from the courtroom where Maria's estranged husband, Industrialist Giovanni Battista Meneghini, avowedly plans to enliven an upcoming legal separation trial with an angry aria on La Callas' "wanton search of happiness that she should...