Word: rosalyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rosalyn steps to the mike and welcomes the Pope to America. It is not a very exciting moment. She talks a lot about "love" and the press pool snickers audibly. The Pope listens thoughtfully--perhaps he is just trying to understand her accent--and then steps forward. He reads his welcoming response. Now the photographers are angry--some idiot had lowered the microphones so they block the Holy Father's face. But at least he's worn his red cape--if he'd been in white the pictures would be horrible...
...Basically Bach festival gave Westenburg an opportunity to make himself and his performers the whole show -which he rejected. "That's fine for a genius like Karajan," he says. "I wanted people to be able to sample various ways of looking at Bach." So he brought in Rosalyn Tureck for an intensely wrought solo recital on harpsichord and piano. Margaret Hillis, director of the Chicago Symphony Chorus, led a sometimes wayward program of vocal and orchestral works that ended solidly on the Magnificat. Harpsichordist Anthony Newman "and friends" sped their dazzling, often unorthodox way through an evening of chamber...
...Nobel prizes can be mixed blessings to scientists. At every turn, the winners are beseiged with demands to make speeches, grant interviews and perform myriad chores that leave precious little time for research. Even worse, an awed public often takes their statements with almost oracular seriousness. So says Rosalyn Yalow, the 1977 Nobelist in medicine, who concludes that the most prized policy for a laureate may sometimes be silence...
Half of the prize will go to Rosalyn Yalow, 56, a nuclear physicist by training who decided early in her career to do medical research. In the 1950s, while working on the complex chemistry of diabetes at the Veterans Administration Hospital in The Bronx, N.Y., Yalow and her late collaborator, Dr. Solomon Berson, devised a sensitive new biological analytic technique called the radioimmunoassay (RIA). Using radioactive isotopes as tracers in the so-called immune reactions by which the body's antibodies combine with foreign antigens, the test was sensitive enough to detect exceedingly minute quantities of a substance...
...Rosalyn Carter, newlywed to former Governor James Carter, chirps, "I would never have found love but for this...