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...that he has had time to put in a full day's work on the score. Recently it was given its world premiere by a student chorus at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, under Professor Lara Hoggard, in a utility version for organ, percussion, chorus and baritone solo; its first orchestra performance is scheduled by the Cincinnati Symphony late next month...
...suffered a serious setback. Because of his poor liver function, an excess of bilirubin (a by-product of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying protein in blood) began to build up in his system, and doctors scheduled another massive transfusion to remove impurities from his blood. Through it all, the one organ that consistently worked best was his acquired heart...
Success of a sort came anyway. As a fellowship winner, Podhoretz attended Clare College at Cambridge University, had a piece of criticism published in F. R. Leavis' formidable literary organ, Scrutiny, and was immediately initiated into a privileged class. Although he knew by then that he would never be a poet, he was flattered to be "magically transformed overnight from a Brooklyn 'barbarian' into 'one of the young gentlemen from America...
...sooner you take a donor," he noted, "the better the donor organ is going to be. Say you wait 24 hours. At present you can't use those organs." Asked if he foresaw a possible black market of hearts, Austen replied, "If these operations eventually prove to be worthwhile, then it will get tough. I just can't see how physicians could be influenced by anything but need, but I know that's naive. Somewhere it's going to have to be pretty carefully thought...
...going to make the same mistake again." Four days after the transplant, the doctors could see no sign of either infection or a rejection reaction. Blaiberg's condition was better than Washkansky's had been at the same stage, with good circulation and all organ functions returning toward normal. He was eating well, and making small talk. Said Barnard: "I would say he is definitely going to live longer than he would without the operation. I cannot say how many months or how many years, but he will live a much more comfortable life than before. This...