Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HENZE: DER JUNGE LORD (Deutsche-Grammophon; 3 LPs). While most aficionados consider Violetta, or Sigmund, or even the sadistic Turandot a familiar acquaintance, or even a friend, few can cozy up to Hans Werner Henze's heroes and heroines. In The Young Lord, the hero turns out to be an extremely well-trained monkey, and the moral of the tale seems to be that the modern world is so fad-conscious that people will imitate practically anyone with a social passport, even if he is an ape in disguise. It might sound like comedy, but the work is filled...
CHARLIE BUBBLES. Albert Finney proves that he can direct as well as act, but leaves some question as to whether he ought to, in this stupefyingly familiar film about a writer who has descended into a hell of modern materialism...
Bedside nurses become familiar faces to a patient recovering from surgery. But the operating-room nurses on whom his life once depended are at most only masked, nameless figures, seen dimly, if at all, through an anesthetic haze. Last week, at the usually unremarkable annual meeting of the Association of Operating Room Nurses, five of them were in attendance, unmasked and uncapped-and they were hailed as celebrities. They were the head nurses who had played key roles in the world's first five transplants of human hearts...
...Familiar Routine. It was also a Saturday, but a sunny morning, when Mrs. Ludmila Davis' secretary phoned from Stanford Medical Center: "This place is a mess, and we're doing a heart transplant!" The "mess" meant that surgery was even busier than usual, with 15 operations scheduled; four were still in progress when Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. began the four-part series to remove the donor's heart and transplant one of her kidneys, and implant her heart in Mike Kasperak's chest...
...machine technicians were soon assembled. Of the great moment itself, Mrs. Davis, says calmly: "We were happy to be doing what we'd been waiting for so long." Nurse Peggy Hartin, who headed one of the double teams, recalls: "I stopped being nervous when we stepped into the familiar routine that Dr. Shumway likes...