Word: organizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society expounded by De Gaulle. His model, rather, is the early formation of the United States-so much so that he keeps a bound volume of The Federalist Papers handy on his desk. "I am," he says, "a European Federalist." He is also an amateur musician (violin, piano and organ) and fluent linguist (five languages) who refuses to sing De Gaulle's tune...
...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...