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...drug or other treatment seems to have any effect, and doctors are no nearer to finding a cause or cure for restless legs than they were three centuries ago when the symptom was first reported by English Physician Thomas Willis.* The only practical prescription remains unchanged: wake up and walk...
Premiered by Diaghilev in 1923 in Paris' Théâtre de la Gaité Lyrique, Les Noces has not been performed in the U.S. since 1936 because of the difficulties of mounting it. But the Robbins production was a symptom of the revived vigor of the American Ballet Theatre, which has had its ups and downs since it first burst on the U.S. stage with such freshly contemporary ballets as Robbins' own 1944 Fancy Free. Its current season at Lincoln Center has been a near-sellout success. Once again the company is what it was intended...
...before. I don't raise a question of intellectual ability, in the common sense of the term, but of the ability--and desire--to communicate, to exchange ideas, to use intellect for something more than exam-time cramming and tutorial papers. The death of small magazines is simply a symptom of the infection of professionalism and careerism is slowly spreading through the College...
...January, despite the 15% surcharge, the news was received with a kind of quiet desperation. The pound weakened. Government officials rushed to reassure the country. Economic experts predicted the government's moment of truth would arrive by the end of the summer. The currency crisis is only one symptom of a more serious malady. It reflects the restrictive practices of British labour and the resistance of British businessmen to innovation; it dramatizes the backwardness of British industry...
...national silver hoard declined by 23% last year, and a conspicuous symptom that the trouble is continuing is the nagging shortage of U.S. coins. Last week the U.S. Treasury told a congressional subcommittee, which is brooding over ways to ease the shortage, that the Government may well have to alter the 90% silver content of dimes, quarters and halves. This has led powerful business groups into the greatest debate over silver since William Jennings Bryan cried out for the silver interests in his 1896 "Cross of Gold" peroration...