Word: rare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this to point up the wisdom of John Houseman's directorial approach to the play. On the rare occasions when it is produced, the work usually tends to be turned into a circus. This Houseman steadfastly refused to do. He preferred to play it straight for the most part; though he was not afraid to introduce occasional bits of humor where they really belong, as in the phony prisoner-of-war inquisition. But, much to his credit, he had the good taste not to court a cheap laugh by having Helena make her final entrance obviously great with child...
...raked Zagri over until the lobbyist obsequiously agreed that he had voted right. Another Congressman was treated to anonymous threats ("We're going to fix you") on his home and office phones. Oregon's Democratic Edith Green took her own Zagri-inspired protests awhile, burst out in rare anger: "He can go to hell...
...Manhattan radio station, Eleanor Roosevelt made a rare public utterance in Italian, a tongue that she first picked up long ago as a schoolgirl in England. Target of her somewhat critical shafts: Fellow Democrat Carmine Gerard De Sapio, leader of Manhattan's Tammany Hall, who might have followed Mrs. Roosevelt's remarks but scarcely replied in kind, because he speaks little Italian...
When he was conducting his Third Symphony in Rome in 1934, Composer Sergei Prokofiev made a rare admission to a visiting musicologist. "This," said he, "is my best work, but only because The Flaming Angel is my greatest." Prokofiev had, in fact, lifted the Third Symphony almost entirely from The Flaming Angel -probably because he despaired of ever seeing his monumentally difficult opera produced. He never did: Flaming Angel had its first stage performance in Venice (TIME, Sept. 26, 1955) 2½ years after the composer's death. At Italy's Spoleto festival, which closed last week, Angel...
...huge Clinical Center (TIME, July 20, 1953), . lists eight forms of the disease that can often be set back by drugs, sometimes for as long as two or three years. These are: acute leukemia in children, chronic lymphocytic and myeloid leukemia in adults, Hodgkin's disease, rhabdomyosarcoma (a rare muscle cancer), Wilms's tumor (in the kidney, present at birth), cancer of the adrenal glands, and choriocarcinoma (mainly in women, and arising from placental material). The list includes four major types of cancer-leukemia, lymphoma. sarcoma and carcinoma. This offers some hope that drugs effective against...