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...Pauli." Kennan watches a 23-year-old pianist who is "Jewish, from Russia, and evidently is rumored to be near to death with tuberculosis . . . When he played . . . it seemed as though he himself were being played upon by some unseen musician -- as though every note were being wrung out of him." Many things have altered in six decades, but not the performance of Vladimir Horowitz...
...when John Ruskin lets fly in Modern Painters: "A taint and stain, and jarring discord . . . marked sensuality and impurity." In 1895 Romain Rolland downed him: "He was able to deceive two entire centuries . . . Guido's laborious conscientiousness is void of thought and true feeling." Two years later, Bernard Berenson wrung his neck: "We turn away from Guido Reni with disgust unspeakable." And it was downhill from there; in 1910 one of his versions of Bacchus and Ariadne sold at Christie's for just under (pounds)10, a fraction of its auction price 60 years before. The nadir...
What makes the Northwestern technique special is that virtually all the blood lost in an operation is salvaged. It is wrung out by hand from the saturated sponges directly into a bowl of saline solution. The solution is filtered and then passed into a centrifuge, where the red blood cells are separated. Within 15 minutes the reclaimed blood is back in circulation. Says Northwestern anesthesiologist Ann Ronai: "We're trying to salvage as much blood as possible during the operation, because it's better than somebody else's." The savings can be enormous: when the sponge method is combined with...
Just when these events have wrung the utmost sympathy and admiration for the Hallams from the reader, Barnard shakes the kaleidoscope: in a tour de force passage of inner monologue, the visiting girl re-examines some seemingly unimportant events to expose how the family's pieties about mankind have masked a cruel indifference to individual people. The field of potential suspects thereby doubles to include the noble clan. More important, what happened on a moonlit lawn, and why, becomes less a puzzle and more a metaphor for a social system on the brink of change. Throughout, Barnard's narrative never...
...fictional character, Tyson would be an offense to everyone, a stereotype wrung out past infinity to obscenity. He is the black Brooklyn street thug from reform school, adopted by the white benevolent old character from the country who could only imagine the terrible violence done to the boy from the terrible violence the boy can do to others. "I'll break Spinks," Tyson says. "None of them has a chance. I'll break them all." Other sports trade on mayhem, but boxing is condemned for just this: intent...