Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advertised in the Hollywood Reporter, the House in Palm Springs, Calif, had everything: "Elegantly furn., new, modern, 3 brs plus 3 baths & guest house. Re-frige., air cond., heated and filt. pool. Artistically landscaped and compl. walled, unsurpassed view, exclu. south end location. Immed. poss." Sale price: $57,500. Owners: Eddie and Debbie...
...Italian physician working in the U.S. on a Fulbright grant. They went to work on ventricular fibrillation, which is still a grave danger when a patient's body is cooled for heart surgery (hypothermia). The cooling itself protects the brain from lack of oxygen (anoxia), has greatly advanced modern heart surgery. But hearts cooled to an average 28° C. during hypothermia also become highly irritable; they may fibrillate and cause death...
...studied under Thomas Wolfe. Wald did not forget that prolix prose poet's advice: "Gentlemen, never write anything but masterpieces; there's such a good market for them." Says Wald: "That's a pretty good idea for movies too." In 1933 Wald sold a story to Modern Screen magazine, was brought West to Warner Brothers to turn it into a movie. From Warner he bounced on to RKO, next tried Columbia, then Fox. Over the years, Producer Wald, 46, has built up a reputation for idiosyncrasies, something that is increasingly rare in the new Hollywood. Examples...
...Philistine "cities of the plain." Now the Judean hills belong mostly to Arabs, while the Israelis occupy former Philistine territory. If Tell Goliath proves to be Mamshat, it will be an exception: a city of the plain that was Jewish in ancient times and is today part of modern Israel...
...commentators would make them appear," writes the Rev. John Bertram Phillips. "They would be, or indeed perhaps are, amazed to learn what meanings are sometimes read back into their simple utterances!" Anglican Phillips' attempt to make these utterances simple to 20th century readers is The New Testament in Modern English (Macmillan; $6), which last week was headed for the bestseller list...