Word: wolff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...evening of music which made demands on the attention not usually required of an audience, Christion Wolff's music was perhaps the hardest to grasp. There were two pieces, both for two pianos, the second running almost 15 minutes. From the surface of the music it is easy enough to catalogue the extensions of Webern's devices: only a few notes are played at a time; these are usually very soft (or else very loud); there is constant preoccupation with color: most of the music is very high or low, piano strings are plucked with the fingers, there are elaborate...
...relief. Up to that time he had not let doctors study him, because of his sensitive feelings. Doctors were callously more interested in his stoma and stomach than in him. He refused to be a human guinea pig. But in 1941 at New York Hospital, Drs. Harold G. Wolff and Stewart Wolf made a deal: on their payroll, Tom would spend his mornings as a subject of medical study, his afternoons as a handyman around the laboratory. Peppery about his right of privacy, Tom made the doctors promise not to publish his last name anywhere, or a recognizable picture outside...
Pink & Relaxed. So fruitful was this association that m 1943 Wolf and Wolff published the most momentous study of digestion since Beaumont's: Human Gastric Function (updated in 1947). They had investigated not only the stoma and stomach but, by the psychosomatic approach, the whole man. They showed that Tom's stomach, when he was at ease, was pale pink and relaxed, with many convoluted folds, but bright red, smooth and tense when he became angry. Fright turned both Tom's face and his stomach pale. By shutting off the flow of gastric juices, depression made...
...FLANDERS FIELDS, by Leon Wolff. Incredible bravery and even more incredible high-command folly make up the grisly story of one of the saddest campaigns of World War I. Author Wolff's account of tragedy amid blood and mud is cool, informed and horrifyingly persuasive...
...views of Wolff, Gilmore and Dow on this question may be, as Taylor puts it, "idiosyncratic." But the non-believers in the synthesis, if a minority, are a significant one, and there is remarkably little feeling for the fusion among the undergraduate concentrators. Students go into History and Lit, it would seem, in order to get some amount of experience with both disciplines; and most of them probably get nothing more than that out of the field, for the confu...