Word: organized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Messiaen won the coveted organist's job at La Trinite church in Paris, and later a teaching post at the conservatory. Today, he still gives composition classes and plays for weekly Mass, occasionally enlivening a service with a hair-raising, dissonant improvisation on the organ. In his spare time, he labors at a scholarly tome on the subtleties of rhythm, which he regards as "the primordial, perhaps the essential, part of music...
...people to be left alone, to be free from the constant exhortations and demands imposed by the party. "Many of our young people declare that they want to keep out of politics. They wouldn't need to bother with politics in the West, they say"--so complains the official organ of the East German youth organization, Junge Welt...
...situation. It is true that Literdrni Noviny published a series, "God Is Not Completely Dead." It must be added, however, that Literdrni Noviny and other Communist cultural periodicals in Czechoslovakia have been recently subjected to rather violent attacks by Communist leaders in Rude Pravo (Red Justice), daily organ of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. The tone of these critical remarks indicates that the party is not yet ready to accept either the dissent of intelligentsia or any far-reachine; dialogues between Christians and Marxists. The ghost of Stalin is still around...
Cadavers Are Best. The ideal way to get around the rejection reaction is to find an organ donor with the same immunity pattern as the recipient. This happens with any certainty only in the case of identical twins. For patients not so fortunate as to have an identical twin, the conferees agreed, the best source for a donated kidney is a brother or sister, with the mother next. The one-year survival rate for kidneys from close relatives, reported Dr. Joseph E. Murray of Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, is now 70%. For the patients themselves...
...wide application, said Dr. Kenneth Sell, organ transplantation will have to depend on organ banks, similar to the tissue bank he now maintains for the U.S. Navy at Bethesda, Md. So far, no one has devised a way to freeze a whole organ and get it to work after thawing it out. But another visionary suggestion is for a "living bank," in which organs from human cadavers might be implanted in baboons and stored in the animals until needed for transplants...