Word: performances
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come pretty close to producing literature. The Johnson piece, it seems to me, is worthy of being preserved as a model for aspiring writers. Hard and consistent discipline and dirty homework are evident all the way. Hard, sweaty writing makes easy reading. I do so admire observing old pros perform...
...whether the flurry of surgical virtuosity in heart transplants might be premature. A Canadian heart surgeon said it was. The Soviet Union's health ministry forbade Russian surgeons to do such transplants. Germany's Dr. Werner Forssmann, who won a Nobel Prize for dangerously daring heart research performed on himself, said: "I consider it a crime to perform an operation in a field where fundamental research is not yet finished...
...question then arises: For which patients? A basic rule in surgery is: "Never perform a big operation if a smaller one will do." No smaller, less radical operation offered any hope for any of the first five recipients of heart transplants. They were all patients whose condition was judged to be "terminal," whose end might come any day. In those circumstances, Shumway's "clinical trial" can be ethically justified...
...enough good ones to go around. Now that most of them jet off to play musical podiums with the world's far-flung orchestras, they scarcely have time to guide the artistic policy of their own ensembles, plan the programs, select the soloists, learn new works, rehearse and perform-let alone address fund-raising luncheons of the ladies' clubs. The best of today's established conductors are thus tired, aging, or both. The Boston Symphony's Erich Leinsdorf, 55, who has announced that he plans to resign at the end of the 1969 season because...
During the night, surgeons tried to perform an "exploratory diagnostic procedure" on Vernaglia to determine the extent of his head injuries, Dr. John B. Vernaglia '26, the uncle of the attacked student said yesterday. However, because of Vernaglia's "agitated condition," doctors could not complete the procedure, Dr. Vernaglia, a surgeon, said. He emphasized that this procedure was not an operation, and that so far doctors have performed no operations on Vernaglia...