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...group's second production, scheduled for Nov. 24 and 25, is "The Calm" by British poet Ted Hughes. Donald Winkel's "The Jar" will be presented...
...must I, when jar worse is eagerly bought...
Limburger research got going ten years ago when a San Francisco bachelor died of botulism after gourmandizing on a jar of cheese spread. The National Cheese Institute wanted to learn how to prevent such deaths, which are caused by microbes that sometimes get into spreads and make botulin, the deadliest natural poison known. The University of Chicago's Food Research Institute took on the job, assigned Polish-born Microbiologist Nicholas Grecz to work on it. Grecz was led to Limburger because, as early as the 1880s, Limburger-type cheeses had been observed never to cause food poisoning. Nobody knew...
Stravinsky created a unique form in Odeipus Rex, for its drama has neither opera's action nor the oratorio's formal units. Yet the music is crammed with references to this style or that, to Handel and Verdi, little touches that jar the listener at first but later seem almost ironical...
...print, considerably embellished, and the opening sentence may well be something breezy like "There is an automobile loose on the streets of New York with two of my fingers." This will be followed by several hundred words about the professional sadism of doctors, the difficulty of opening a jar of instant coffee with one hand bandaged and the intricacies of Blue Cross ("Until now I'd always thought the term 'major medical had something to do with the armed services"). Undoubtedly there will also be a report on how at 3 a.m. the throbbing of a finger brings thoughts...