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...point in attitudes toward late Beethoven. For performers and listeners alike, it is either the ultimate in communicative art or too personal and troubled to share with a large audience. Rubinstein and Horowitz subscribe to the latter view and avoid both the music and the problem. Even a comparative youngster like Cliburn has kept his interpretive thoughts on the matter largely to himself. Fortunately there is Ashkenazy, the finest all-round pianist in music today, a man who is possessed of Schnabel's heart but, unlike Schnabel, has technique to burn. How exquisitely he attends to Beethoven...
...villainy. Moriarty has an uncanny capacity to disturb. It is part of his stage presence and power. One feels that others do his bidding because they are terribly afraid not to. Before achieving the throne he seems neurasthenically preoccupied, but at his coronation he is as playful as a youngster with a shiny new toy. This is one of several psychological effects subtly managed by Moriarty...
During the Depression, life teetered on the edge of discomfort for the Fords. As a high school student, Jerry had to wait on tables to supplement the family income. Nonetheless, he still had time to indulge the passion of his youth: football. A strapping youngster, he played center for South High School for reasons that probably had as much to do with temperament as physique. Ford always had his hand on the ball, but he snapped it to the quarterback who called the plays and scored the touchdowns. As Ford acknowledges, he never stopped playing center even when he gave...
...Hayashi's film showing conception and fetal development must be fascinating. But there is tragic irony in his statement about the film teaching youngsters to be "awed by the value of life." The youngster who starred in the film was aborted...
...various types of cancer that afflict children, few are more fearsome than osteogenic sarcoma, a tumor that originates in the bone and spreads rapidly. By the time doctors can tell that the pain in a youngster's arm or leg is the product of such a tumor, the odds are strong that microscopic clusters of malignant cells have already reached the lungs. Removing the primary tumor by amputation saves the patient from early death. But in 80% of the 150 cases of this cancer reported among patients under age 15 in the U.S. annually, a secondary tumor appears...