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...modishly on the topical-Che Guevara, police, R.F.K., student riots, Dr. Spock. But the right eye glints backwards to Agamemnon, Sir Thomas More, Napoleon, King David, Adam. "I am learning to live in history," Lowell writes and adds, as his chameleon's tongue flicks out to ingest another aphorism: "What is history? What you cannot touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Chameleon Poet | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

Like many of his contemporaries on the podium, Mehta nearly always conducts without a score ("Half of our trade is in the eyes"), relying on a fantastic capacity to ingest compositions in a few readings and hold them in his well-stocked memory. During his years with the Montreal orchestra he had to memorize practically an entire new program every week, often while en route between engagements. One of the solutions he worked out was to conduct staging rehearsals of an operatic score while studying an orchestral score that was placed on the floor next to him. This learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Gypsy Boy | 1/19/1968 | See Source »

...philosophy of the Harvard Summer Concert Series seems to consist of indulging its audiences with the familiar while at the same time requiring that it ingest increasing amounts of the new and not so easily palatable. Pianist Leonard Shure opened the series with a completely traditional program of Chopin, Schubert and Beethoven; a week later Jamie and Ruth Laredo deferred to general taste with Bach and Beethoven, but managed to sneak in the somewhat post-Romanticist Sonata Concertante of contemporary Leon Kirchner; last night violinist Felix Galimir and his chamber ensemble (one almost expected the program to read "Felix Galimir...

Author: By Robert G. Kopelson, | Title: Felix Galimir and Chamber Ensemble | 7/25/1967 | See Source »

...next question was obvious: Do humans react like rats when they ingest cadmium and other metals? By way of answer, Dr. Schroeder offered chemical analyses of 400 human kidneys showing that Americans at birth have a negligible amount of cadmium stored there, that the amount of the metal increases gradually with age and reaches its highest levels in patients with high blood pressure of unknown origin. He did not have to remind his medical audience that kidney function is important in regulating blood pressure, and that many cases of high blood pressure are clearly associated with kidney disorders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Circulation: Cadmium & Blood Pressure | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...Whenever we turn on TV, President Johnson is on the screen. He drones on with Pollyanna prunes and prisms and a string of soppy platitudes. He is the talk-ingest President we've ever had. It would be better for the country if he did less talking and more thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

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