Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...apartment next to Righetti's had obtained exclusive rights to the one stairway leading into the courtyard below, but with the proviso that the door of what was now Righetti's apartment must be sealed off. The owner of Righetti's apartment had in turn sought permission to cut another door into the courtyard, but because the palace was a national monument, the Ministry of Fine Arts in Rome had forbidden it. Now, after eight years, a Rome court had ordered the door sealed off, and Righetti would have to leave. It was the law, they said...
More About Everything. When some of his students refused to be roused, Ergil announced that he would wrestle any boy who did not turn in homework. Half a dozen or so of the huskier kids took him up. The slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 145 Ibs.) teacher marched them to the gym, convinced them in successive falls of the importance of hard study. Ergil's qualifications for teaching, it turned out, included wrestling for his alma mater, the University of Istanbul. Other qualifications of Liberal Artist Ergil, now a U.S. citizen: two years of pre-med training, three...
...artistry is the kind that begins where technique leaves off. His expressiveness ranges from ghostly sonorities and harplike trills to ringing double octaves that cleave the orchestra like a sword. He can shape passages with tension and excitement, turn the weariest warhorse into a spirited charger. He is not above rewriting, as in the chorale section of Chopin's C Sharp Minor Scherzo, where he fills out the harmonies with extra notes ("I think Chopin would forgive...
...seem hardest hit by adolescence. Nearly a third of their complaints have no medical basis. But not all are so simply psychosomatic as those of the boy whose serious headaches began when his father remarried shortly after the death of his mother -who had similar headaches. Many surface complaints turn up real trouble: vague pains sometimes signal diabetes, tumors, infections, heart disease...
...Teenagers are interesting, cooperative and grateful," he says. "It's a pleasure to work with them." His satisfactions come from such cases as that of the 15-year-old girl who fell into despair when her twelve-year-old sister began menstruating before she did. Her turn would come. Roth gently reassured her. Recently, her face beaming, she collared him at the clinic. "Dr. Roth," she yelled. "I've had it!" That, says he, was as rewarding as delivering a new baby...