Word: vein
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York City Opera swung into its spring season last week with a double bill devoted to the psychological and the tactical aspects of love. Bela Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle, a moody, Freudian opus (TIME, Oct. 13), came first. Then in a more frolicsome vein, came Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole, and its story of light-hearted Spanish intrigue. Apart from the tact that both operas were done thoroughly to the first-nighters' taste, the chief interest centered on the second conductor of the evening. After Company Director Joseph Rosenstock had conducted Bluebeard, he turned...
...Passage. Polaroid's 3-D bonanza is only a wider opening in a vein it has been profitably mining for years. The phenomenon of polarized light has been a scientific curiosity for at least two centuries, but Land, as a teen-age youngster experimenting in his home laboratory, was the first to find a way to exploit it. He impregnated plastic with tiny needle-like crystals that allowed only light waves vibrating in a single plane to pass through. As a physics student at Harvard, Land perfected the idea, and left before graduation to found his own company...
Camphor & Leeches. By their own elaborately detailed case history, the doctors did everything possible for their prophet. When his breathing became more than usually labored, they clapped an oxygen mask on him. Since he was comatose and could take no food, they fed him a glucose solution through a vein. To guard against pneumonia, they saw to it that his position in bed was changed often, and they injected penicillin. They injected caffeine to stimulate Stalin's nervous system. Following an old idea (which most U.S. doctors have abandoned), they injected camphor to boost his heart...
Twice they used leeches to reduce the volume (and hence, they hoped, the pressure) of their patient's blood. At this, West-of-Curtain doctors raised their eyebrows: the job could have been done better and more easily by the modern method of puncturing a vein. However, the bloodsucking creatures could do no harm, and the Russian physicians may have had a nonmedical reason for their use-it would convince even the most old-fashioned Russian that nothing had been left undone that might save Stalin...
What the Met audience heard was Stravinsky gone autumnal. The music began with a brass fanfare in antique vein, worked its often dissonant way through a series of style movements reminiscent of Handel, Mozart and, occasionally, subdued Verdi. It had uncharacteristic lyrical moments, e.g., Tenor Eugene Conley's lament in the brothel scene and Hilde Gueden's pretty love song in the garden, and jabs of vulgar humor in Blanche Thebom's bearded-lady scenes. But it never found anything to get excited about, and rarely attempted to follow an idea very...