Word: tubas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hungry for the Bottle. The first Navajo to be treated with isoniazid was a seven-month-old baby girl named Patty. When her parents brought her to Dr. Charles M. Clark at Western Navajo Hospital in Tuba City, Patty was a wizened starveling of 9 lbs., with miliary TB. Her temperature was 103° and she had to be fed by tube. After 17 days of treatment with isoniazid, her temperature dropped to normal and she began taking the bottle hungrily. Now Patty weighs 16 lbs. and her TB seems to have been arrested...
...Patient Navajo. Another shipment of Nydrazid was sent to Tuba City, where Dr. Charles Clark found, among the unhappy Navajos, all too many cases of both meningeal and miliary tuberculosis. A 17-year-old girl (a miliary case), admitted with a fever of 103° and so weak that she could not walk alone, was fever free within a week and soon coughed no more sputum. Now she is up & around...
...authority, as possessing a sort of spiritual right of eminent domain. All this endows the trial scene with a particular dignity and affirmativeness, and with the right resounding orchestration. In the main, Shaw resists his usual mocking passages for flute or oboe, those sour or sarcastic entrances of tuba or trombone...
...tightening. As the plot thickens, it sickens, and only the irrepressible antics of Jack Gilford keep the whole thing from falling apart. Gilford is one of the funniest clowns to appear in Boston for a long time. Sliding down stairs, mimicking the orchestra, and pulling bottles out of a tuba's bell, he completely dominates the final...
...chorus should have been somewhat larger. Although Mr. Munch kept the orchestra and chorus in approximately the same proportion that Berlioz envisaged, the voices were not strong enough in the triple-fortissimo passages of the "Tuba Mirum" and "Laerymosa." At these times, however, these was quite a bit else to occupy one's attention...