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...hearing grows worse and worse," Beethoven wrote in 1801. "A medical ass prescribed tea for my ear." Ever since his death in 1827, scholars have speculated that poor circulation, syphilis or typhoid fever might have been the cause. Not so, say Drs. Kenneth M. Stevens and William G. Hemenway of the University of Colorado Medical Center in the A.M.A. Journal. Beethoven's deafness was probably caused by cochlear otosclerosis, which today might be corrected by surgery. In this disorder, bony overgrowths within the inner ear cavity interfere with the transformation of vibrations into nerve impulses, and thus prevent their...
...Hallé orchestra (see MILESTONES). The same day, Conductor Jonel Perlea, 69, died in New York, ending a career whose flickering brilliance had been dimmed by war and a succession of illnesses. Then came perhaps the saddest word of all. George Szell, 73, had died in Cleveland, victim of fever, bone cancer and heart attack...
...hungry cities are getting into the act. In Waltham, Mass., home of Brandeis University, the local board of assessors threatened the school with a $10,000 tax bill for the building used by a nationwide campus-fever monitoring project: the student-run strike information center. As a result, the center has left the Brandeis campus. Boston has asked colleges owning property in the city to report on whether political-action groups are using their facilities. The threat has no effect on far-left campus groups like the S.D.S., which do not engage in conventional politics but spend their energies attacking...
...bias of an anti-Neophiliac has driven Booker to underrate some genuine and rather remarkable cultural achievements. But that same bias has given him the insight to diagnose a fever behind the vitality of England during the past decade and a half...
...turning of the teens, Rose suggests, a child is taken over by conflicting identities-opposing demons fighting for dominance. Furthermore, Rose hints, pointing at the papas and mamas, the middle-aged American, too, is still waiting for a demon to put a blaze in his heart and a fever in his imagination and lead him through some mind-blowing rites of passage...