Word: karle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...KARL MARX: AN INTIMATE BIOGRAPHY...
Richard Strauss: Salome (Soprano Hildegard Behrens, Mezzo Agnes Baltsa, Tenor Karl-Walter Bohm, Baritone Jose Van Dam, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conductor, Angel; 2 LPs). With Karajan, the orchestral music comes first, even in opera. Here he conducts a vibrant, sensuous performance of Strauss's lurid opera. Behrens as Salome may lack the cruel edge of Birgit Nilsson's performance on London. But Behrens' pure voice contrasts chillingly with Salome's lust, while Van Dam's ringing Jochanaan is a saintly counterpoint in a savage world...
...purification for kidney patients. Its name is awesome: continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, CAPD for short. But its effect is simplicity itself. It totally frees patients from long, wearying sessions on the kidney machine. They can walk about, work and perform daily tasks while their blood is being cleansed. Dr. Karl Nolph, Morgan's nephrologist, or kidney specialist, calls CAPD the closest thing yet to a completely portable internal artificial kidney: "It functions continuously, maintains steady conditions in body chemistry, and requires no machinery, electricity, blood-thinning drugs or any of the other paraphernalia of conventional hemodialysis...
...only comment from the Faculty on the report came from Karl W. Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace. Deutsch asked that the proposed center on teaching also be called a center for learning. "Not only do we need people who know how to offer a good menu, we also need guests who know how to order," he said...
...Administration's optimism is supported by some outside experts. Karl Otto Pöhl, vice president of the Bundesbank, West Germany's central bank, believes a U.S. recession can be averted by skilled handling of monetary policy...