Word: strains
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There is . . . one strain of human nature that craves union with God at God's level. It may be called reason. . . . It may be called love...
...Bartók's own favorites was his early (1907) Portrait No. 1 in D, in which a tender strain of violin melody was originally played by the concertmaster from his seat in the orchestra. Bartók once begged Szigeti: "You must rescue it, take it out of the orchestra." Last week Szigeti played it as a violin concerto, with Leonard Bernstein's New York City Symphony, in its first Manhattan performance. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "How music of such extraordinary value can have escaped [our] attention . . . for four decades is difficult to understand...
...White Powder. Working over four years with 104,275 mice, Drs. Green & Bittner developed a breed in which the cancer strain was particularly high. Bits of cancer tissue from infected high-strain mice were sliced, put in gravity-defying centrifuges. The materials thus separated from malignant cancer cells were put back in the centrifuge for a second whirl. What was left was a whitish, dustlike powder-grim carrier of the virus...
...Ionized air (electrically charged) to step up efficiency. A negative charge, the Germans found, produces a feeling of buoyancy and optimism, reduces high blood pressure and nervous strain. (A positive charge has the opposite effects: it produces ill-temper, depression and fear...
...represents no great strain of the imagination to call the new Courtney Burr production a Victorian melodrama, despite the fact that it says quite plainly on the program that its episodes occur in 1945 and in spite, also, of its very un-Victorian lead, Percy Kilbride, who steals the show until he finally falls through the thin surface of "Little Brown Jug's" plot and of his own tedium...