Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Podolsky of Brooklyn, a great music-lover, likes to calm his irritable patients with phonograph records. Although little serious experimental work has been done on the physiological effects of music. Dr. Podolsky for years has been collecting scraps of information on the subject. This week he published a lively little scrapbook on music and medicine.* Interesting items...
...Pope would have little to do with doctors, preferred to have his valet try "home remedies" to ease his pain. He ate only soft, bland foods: boiled chicken, thin vegetable soups, small amounts of rice pudding, occasional sips of red wine or champagne. Last November he had another serious attack of cardiac asthma, often had to get out of bed at night and sit in an armchair to relieve his coughing spells...
Last week he came down with influenza, suffered a third serious heart attack. Since his physician, Dr. Aminta Milani, was also sick with flu. Dr. Filippo Rocchi was called. Scarcely had he arrived when the Pope became unconscious. His pulse was feeble, his heartbeat almost inaudible. As a stimulant, Dr. Rocchi gave the Pope an injection of camphor oil* and half an hour later he regained consciousness...
...ever more wisely with new and unblinkable social conditions. Liberal artists conceive the tradition of the fine arts as involving a like growth and adaptation. Occasionally, in each field, progress in interpretation is marked by a commentary so learned as to become a classic. Published last week was a serious book which may well become a sort of Blackstone on Coke to future art students. The subject: The Art of Cezanne* The commentators: Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Dr. Albert Coombs (''Argyrol") Barnes of Merion, Pa. got his nickname, his millions, and his great collection...
...Brooks House show that out of 7,112 students registered, 5,914 are affiliated with churches. Dean Sperry declares that these statistics indicate: "that our Universities, so far from being more irreligious than the world outside, can probably presuppose a greater familiarity with religion-at-large and a more serious interest in its concerns than is the case with the total population of the country...