Word: triads
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...dark doorways, and hordes of emaciated Chinese line up outside tiny, shuttered shops to buy pinches of heroin (at 5? a pinch), then squat on a corner to inhale it through rolled paper tubes or matchbox funnels. The dingy restaurants serve dog and cat meat supplied by members of Triad, Kowloon's secret society, which also operates the booming gambling, narcotics and prostitution rackets...
...leading to the brain; rarely do they consider the kidneys. But more than half of all U.S. deaths are classed technically as due to "cardiovascular-renal" diseases, and last week the American Heart Association marked its annual fund drive with new emphasis on the renal (kidney) part of the triad. Most notable exhibits: "artificial kidneys," which are now saving lives at a growing number of U.S. medical centers...
Bartok: Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano (Rafael Druian, John Simms; Mercury). Written at Bartok's most dissonant period, in 1922, this rarely heard sonata bursts with haunting effects. It contains whole sections where adjacent notes sound sweet as a simple triad, others where the same kind of crowded combinations become strident and even brutal, and yet the whole mysterious piece works out as logically as a Haydn minuet. It is expertly played by the concertmaster of the Minneapolis Symphony and Pianist Simms...
...poignant ending of the courtesan's part ("For me, too, prodigious Rome/ Could not protect from prodigious Rome") to the heartbreaking aria of the bereaved fishwife. The fine unison chorus at the end was as rousing as a latter-day Verdi's, and the pure major triad that sang out as the curtain fell was a real shocker...
...three new rooms are on the ground floor of the library, replacing some of the stacks. The middle room of the triad will exhibit various parts of the Theatre Collection in rotation. They will be shown in cases, indirectly lighted, and giving the illusion of looking through the proscenium arch of a theatre...