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...musical psychology" of his works, especially Peleas et Mellgande, La Cathedrale Engloutle and La. Mer. Poe's fascination with dreams and sexual symbolism cast a "subtle and profound influence over his works," and two of them, The Devil in the Belfry and The Fall of the House of Usher, so affected the composer that he used them as the basis of two never-completed operas...
Africa must seek a reintegration with its own culture, he said. Quoting one African politician, he added, "Our duty is to usher in an era of backward movement. Only intelligent retrogression can save our country...
...baby was born at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital. In the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Mathew H. Gault and Robert Usher report that, despite a difficult breech delivery, he seemed normal and healthy and began breathing spontaneously. But by the time he was taken to the nursery, he was pale and limp. The electrocardiogram was taken by happenstance: the hospital was making a study of heart action in prematures, and this baby seemed to have been about a month premature. The startling ECG finding alerted the doctors to the possibility of serious illness. When the baby turned...
...clear field since the withdrawal of a Belmont fisherman named, of course, Kennedy (James M.). A pair of Kennedys are out to succeed incumbent Treasurer John Francis Kennedy: John Michael, 63, a Boston commercial painter, and John Boyle, 59, town manager of Saugus (pop. 20,000), who was an usher at the funeral of Jack Kennedy's grandfather. "We all came from Ireland," says John B., "and there probably was something there, but we don't want to trade...
Couplets for Hector. Mani's most cherished art form is the miroloy, the dirge with which keening womenfolk usher the Maniot out of a harsh world that neither man nor God seemingly made. More a lament for a hero being taken to the underworld than for a Christian going to his reward-even as she makes the sign of the cross, the grieving widow will say, "Charon took him"-the miroloy mirrors in its 16-syllable line the lament of Andromache over the body of Hector. At graveside, the chief mourner's voice becomes a howl of hysteria...