Word: sym
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against specific viral diseases: idoxuridine (IUDR) for corneal infections caused by the fever-blister virus, and methisazone against smallpox. What exercised the virologists most last week was a third chemical, amantadine, an anti-influenza drug that the Food and Drug Administration has licensed, but under strict controls. Trade-named Sym-metrel by E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., amantadine does not cure a fullblown case of flu. But it may prevent infection if taken before exposure, and mitigate the illness if taken early enough afterward. The trouble with amantadine is that it can produce insomnia, nervousness and lightheadedness, especially...
...only play in the canon to take place entirely in one location. And it is maddeningly rigid and sym-metrical in structure--less a drama than a formal and artificial Elizabethan pavane (in a couple of years he would wisely loosen up his predictable precision when he undertook the similarly structured As You Like...
...nobler and better than middle-class Americans, while others had begun with the more characteristic almost unconscious pride in their Americanism. Experience seemed to have tempered the judgments of both groups, leading the first to a somewhat greater respect for certain American qualities and the second to a greater sym- pathy for Colombians (and other non-Americans). Many had come to a kind of patience, a new attitude toward time. They had come to accept the fact that the Peace Corps had been in Colombia for three years and the per capita income was down and the birthrate...
...felt everywhere in the nation's leading orchestras. Two years ago, when the Philadelphia forbade its players to moonlight with any group larger than a sextet, Concertmaster Anshel Brusi-low angrily resigned, took one of the orchestra's musicians with him, and formed the 35-member Chamber Sym phony of Philadelphia...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT--Handel-Suite No. 6 for Harpisichord; Bruckner-Symphony No. 3; Beethoven-Piano Trio op. 1 no. 1; Honegger-Sym. No. 5; Bachby Joyce Smith...