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...power to initiate amendments to the U.N. Charter-a power it will some day need to use if U.N. is to become, in truth and not merely in aspiration, the organ of One World...
...doubtful whether Strauss ever expected Ariadne to be a box-office hit. A small-scaled "chamber opera" without a chorus, it uses an orchestra of only 37 instruments, one of them an organ. A confused story-within-a-story and a stage-within-a-stage set mix Grecian mythology with Mozartian opera bouffe. The three leading roles, all sopranos, are among the most difficult to sing in all opera...
From a cancer researcher's standpoint, the thyroid gland is an ideal organ to work on: it is easily reached with a test material-iodine-since it takes up nearly all the iodine fed to the body. It is also sensitive to atomic radiation. Researchers have found that radioactive iodine inhibits overactive thyroids; carefully measured amounts of it usually cure hyperthyroidism...
...only failed to produce the distinctive Elizabethan musical flavor captured by William Walton, for example, in the cinematic Henry V, but it was in addition so poorly adapted to the play that dozens of lines were lost under the blast of a trumpet or the wheeze of the organ...
M.G.M. has made much of the fact that Miss Williams and Johnson sing and dance in "Easy to Wed." Both are competent, neither will crash the Crosby-Astaire zone. The better of their two dances is accompanied by Ethel Smith on her organ, while the other has Carlos Ramirez following them around and breathing Latin love lyrics down their neeks...