Word: organism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...surgeon also vented his resentment of South African physicians who will not refer patients for transplants because the chance of success is so slender. He acknowledged that organ rejection by the body was still an obstacle, but argued that "because a problem is not completely solved" is no reason to abandon a procedure. Barnard compared a patient doomed to die of heart disease with a man on the scaffold, the noose already around his neck: "Now you say to him, we won't hang you. You can stand 200 yards away...
...somebody is trying to organize things. A committee of the Council of Europe, meeting in Strasbourg, has just recommended to its 17 member nations that the world's musicians get in tune with each other by adopting the international pitch standard. This is obviously not the council's most momentous problem, but if harmony is finally achieved, it may put an end to discordant, bitonal performances of complex works like Richard Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra. When the Vienna Philharmonic played the Strauss tone poem in London a few years ago, the orchestra built...
...that their parts have been transposed right out of the realm of possibility. Piano manufacturers would have fewer problems with shattered warranties. "On a grand piano, the pull on all strings creates a force of about 20 tons," says Dr. Daniel W. Martin, chief engineer of the Baldwin Piano & Organ Co. "Raising the pitch ten cycles adds another ton of pull. It could crack the metal frame or snap the strings...
...celebrazione, a party, an old-fashioned T-shirt, hot-dog and straw-hat festival of ethnic pride. Manhattan's Columbus Circle was roofed with plastic streamers in red, white and green, the colors of the old country. The guy wires hummed in the breeze as an organ on the bandstand piped out random tunes for the early arrivals. Vendors set up rows of gaily colored booths to sell buttons (WE'RE NO. l), pennants (ITALIAN POWER!) and other paraphernalia of prideful protest. Now, in the already shimmering morning heat, the buses came rolling in from Corona in Queens, Bensonhurst...
...hill in Imperial Beach, Calif. A drab shell, perhaps, but a pearl inside; as one 22-year-old girl put it, "the heaviest place I know to worship." Services include free-form "singing in the spirit," a mighty babble of moans, groans and cries against a background of organ music; "prophecies," in ersatz King James style; and long Cronquist sermons, complete with angels and demons...