Word: got
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...specific receptors, and perhaps duplicating the body's natural internal "drugs" that help keep normal people normal. Says Solomon Snyder, a psychiatrist and pharmacologist at Johns Hopkins University: "As a result of psychopharmacology, psychiatry has come from behind the other medical sciences to a position of leadership. We've got a whole new psychiatry...
...excitement and beauty are to come out of the music itself," says Violinist Marylou Speaker, whose gift to the Peking Central Philharmonic was a metronome. "You sometimes hear amateur groups rushing the pace at home. The tendency is to tense up in a tough passage. When things got hard, Liu took off and was out of context with the music." Ozawa dealt with the same problem in working with the Peking Philharmonic. "Chinese musicians are sensitive and brilliant," he says. "But the steadiness of rhythm, the kind of repetition and restatement of theme that makes Western music exciting, is difficult...
...completely open in the new China. Working on the joint concert, members of the Boston and Peking orchestras got to know each other. Violinist Speaker had become friendly with her opposite number, and at a banquet the women began exchanging stories about their domestic lives and families. Then a man came up to the table and touched the Chinese player on the shoulder. It was a gentle warning, and she fell silent...
...Bucky Dent. I wake up in the middle of the night, and I see Bucky Dent." Another squint, a squirt of tobacco juice and Zimmer returns to spring. "But that was last year. I'm not a guy who makes predictions, but we've got a good ball club. We'll be in a pennant race again...
...collapse, blowing a 14-game lead, was of such epic proportions that it already is part of the game's lore, but the Sox insist, perhaps too strongly, that the past is dead. In his 19th major league spring, Carl Yastrzemski looks back on the year that got away and declares: "I forgot about it a couple of hours after we got beat. Optimism is what spring training is for." And First Baseman George Scott, slimmed down and eager, adds a springtime aphorism of his own: "New years bring new things...