Word: organism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hell's Pastures. His narrative is largely concerned with Major John Stone, an American who first came to Paris as holder of a scholarship in cello playing, played the organ briefly in a corrective school for girls, and, war being war, wound up an OSS operative in the French resistance. In a novel given to symbolism, his chosen code name tells much of the man and the book. It is "Dante" -the man who came back from Hell. Humes, no Virgil, conducts his Dante through the small hells of war, dishonor, and the loss of love. Hell, he suggests...
...Gladys Lowman, 31, died last week. Main cause: weakened defense against infection due to lack of white blood corpuscles. Forced to transplant a kidney from a child with no genetic relation to Mrs. Lowman, physicians had the problem of countering antibodies that would have rejected the alien organ. For the first time, they tried to solve it by destroying the antibodies' source, the patient's bone marrow, with X rays. Though new bone marrow was injected, it failed to generate enough white corpuscles to prevent the spread of infection. But physicians consider the attempt highly valuable toward perfection...
...chorus showed signs of the strain of singing against the organ, and the big sections were loud without being rich and full. The quieter sections were much better; the pianissimos of the opening chorus proved far more dramatic than the fortissimos of the brawling final chorus...
...soloists, two of the chorus' old reliables, also had a rough evening. Thomas Beveridge was the victim of miscasting: his voice is too light for this particular part. O'Brien Nicholas struggled with the bewildering problem of keeping on pitch under the doubtful guidance of an organ. Her intonation difficulties were redeemed by the charm of an incredibly lovely voice which seemed to take on a personality of its own amid the weird atonality...
...some measures back), there was also a great deal of beauty. The Requiem is long, even with two movements omitted, and often repetitive. Professor Woodworth did not allow it to fall asleep. He used the chorus in such a way as to provide the greatest possible contrast to the organ; and even if the chorus has sometimes sounded more polished, its performance was, under the conditions, nothing to be ashamed...