Word: karle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with psittacosis ("parrot fever," also called ornithosis). Before the discovery of antibiotics, psittacosis was unbeatable, killed scores of people in the U.S. This led to a federal embargo on all members of the parrot family-they still cannot be imported for sale. But last week, famed old (74) Virologist Karl F. Meyer was hailed at Stockholm's International Congress for Microbiology for a research victory that was strictly for the birds: he has found a way to keep parakeets (or budgerigars ) free of the psittacosis virus simply by feeding them seed treated with a common antibiotic. More important, when...
...student just in from Africa's Gold Coast, he had waited tables and taught classes to pay his way through seven years (1935-42) at Pennsylvania's Negro Lincoln University-and later at the University of Pennsylvania. He knew Communism for its imaginary best when he studied Karl Marx's writings more carefully than most Russian apologists. Yet his outspoken policy of "positive neutralism" leaned clearly toward the West's patient methods...
...plunked like a loosely strung mandolin. But the audience listened to the big, barrel-chested baritone with the rapt concentration of buffs at the Metropolitan Opera. They stomped lusty approval of arias from Tannhäuser and The Barber of Seville, art songs by Delibes and Debussy, lieder by Karl Loewe and Schubert...
DOWN THERE (La-Bas) (317 pp.) -Joris-Karl Huysmans, translated by Keene Wallis - University Books...
...With his hooked paw. the Devil drew me toward God," wrote a crazy mixed-up Frenchman named Joris-Karl Huysmans. He was never so crazy as when he earnestly took up diabolism. The record of his descent to the depths among the witches and warlocks of Paris was written in the first year of the '90s, and nothing more appalling appeared in the rest of that de cadent decade. Là-Bas, now republished in the U.S., might well call to the mind of old-fashioned readers Browning...