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...ancient yin-yang cosomology of Chinese emperor Fou-hi, who ruled about 2910 B.C. He taught me that man is unhappy because he feels divorced from the world. The dialectic of world peace can be achieved only through diet." He continued, describing how Ohsawa had founded several "sanarants," sanatorium restaurants, in France and six Macrobiotic restaurants in New York...
Through the Keyhole. In three weeks of testimony, Bode unfolded a grisly story. Obrawalde was a large, handsome sanatorium surrounded by parks, and relatives were told how lucky their demented loved ones were to be so close to nature. But when patients arrived, a male nurse examined them, then assigned the strong ones to "Department 19," which meant the forced-labor camp. The weak ones went to "Department 20," the death room. "I was first told about the killings," testified Obrawalde's dentist, "by a group of children who had watched through the keyhole...
...music. When friends finally placed him in a hospital outside Paris a year ago, he was suffering from tuberculosis, alcoholism, malnutrition and other legacies of hard living. Doctors said that he would not recover for at least three years. But Powell progressed rapidly, was soon transferred to a convalescent sanatorium where he spent long hours at the piano and wrote his first new music in six years...
...Fire starts, an alcoholic gigolo (Maurice Ronet) is drying out in a Versailles sanatorium. His doctor says he is cured, but the patient demurs. "All my life," he broods, "I have done nothing but wait. Wait for something to happen, I don't know what. Life moves too slowly in me. I must speed it up. Tomorrow I will kill myself...
...facts with some bitterness. "I don't have any musician friends," he says. "I was friends to lots of musicians, but looks like they weren't friends to me." He sometimes makes quiet and kindly gestures?such as sending some money to Bud Powell, caged in a tuberculosis sanatorium outside Paris?but his words are hard. "All you're supposed to do is lay down the sounds and let the people pick up on them," he says...