Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Little David returned smiling happily and initiated the "healing services." While the loudspeakers drooled soft organ music, forty of the afflicted lined up in front of the platform. The first patient was a crippled woman in a wheelchair; David called on Jesus to heal this sister then tried a mental suggestion on her. "Don't you feel God's healing power flowing through you? you do, you do!" After five minutes of this, the woman rose out of her chair and walked thirty feet to an empty seat. The audience moaned in amazement; a man behind me cried out "Jesus...
Crack to Chasm? For this week the party ordered Reggio Emilia's Red-run labor unions to go out on a 24-hour "anti-traitors general strike." When support for the strike appeared dubious, it was postponed. The party organ, Unita, cried: "For every two traitors who leave, 2,000 new members join...
...plasma substitutes offer the danger of putting large amounts of foreign matter into the blood. If they damage some organ, the ill effects may not show up for years-so doctors like to be careful. Plasma substitutes would have to be used in case of an atom-bomb attack, but experts would prefer real plasma, or better yet, whole blood...
...twins are the result of an imperfect splitting of the egg during gestation. The resultant monstrous births may be two complete individuals like Chang and Eng, joined at a single point. Or "they" may be a single individual equipped with an extra (generally useless) arm, leg, head or other organ...
Outstanding are Thayer David as the myopic Monsieur Organ, Priscilla Morrill as the spunky maid, and Paul Ballantyne as an Enlightened bourgeois. Jan Farran is a tempting Madam Organ, and Jerry Kilty is, just as he should be, incredibly impetuous as Monsieur Organ's son. Kilty parodies--with the utmost skill--Baroque music and Baroque graces in a lyric which he has written for Louis XIV, who, by the way, is seated in the Brattle Royal Box. And then there is Fred Gwynne who during the Prologue wanders in briefly as a most foppish of fops...