Word: footing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buxtehude: Organ Music (Carl Weinrich, organist; Musicraft, 8 sides). As a young man, Bach tramped 200 miles on foot to hear Dietrich Buxtehude play the organ. Some of the old master's music, here superbly played by Princeton's famed organist, shows some of the reasons why. Recording: good...
...fight had "gone across the river" to Jersey. In one corner last week, black-browed and confident, sat Rocky Graziano, onetime Army deserter, middleweight champion and boxing's worst foot forward (he is barred in New York and in Illinois). The boys in the ringside seats noticed the pimples on his back and recalled stories that 26-year-old Rocky had been eating high off the hog since people began calling him "champ...
First the doctors invented a new instrument, which they called a stereo-encephalotome. It is about a foot high, and looks like a surveyor's transit; its four legs are mounted on a ring fixed to the patient's skull by a plaster cast. At the top is a hollow needle containing a fine electric wire. X-ray pictures are taken to establish the exact position of the thalamus; the legs of the instrument are adjusted to place the needle exactly over it. The patient is anesthetized, and a piece of bone directly under the needle...
...Kinsey got off on the wrong foot, said Dr. Kubie, by making two wrong basic assumptions. "One is that the overt manifestations of sexual patterns are all that we need to know about human sexuality. The other ... is that where any behavior pattern is widespread ... it is superfluous to attempt to explain it ... The implication that because homosexuality is prevalent we must accept it as 'normal,' or as a happy and a healthy way of life, is wholly unwarranted...
Coffee House Compact. The New York Exchange was built on speculation; in early days it often seemed jerrybuilt. Wall Street (socalled because of the log wall that peg-legged Peter Stuyvesant had built) was a natural site for trading: near the docks at its foot, there had long been a slave market. There, in 1790, when the first U.S. Congress voted "public stock" to redeem the Continental scrip which had financed the Revolution, a lively trade in the U.S. "stock" sprang...