Word: abbotts
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WHEN ROBERT LOWELL arrived at Harvard as a freshman in the autumn of 1935, he brought a weighty burden with him. Surrounded by reminders of his family's immense wealth and power (his uncle, Abbott Lawrence Lowell, was then president of the University, and construction of Lowell House was underway), and further intimidated by the monolithic literary reputations of the preceding generations of Lowells, the young student found his burning aspirations dampened...
REMEMBER Francis the Talking Mule Joins the Army? Remember Abbott and Costello in Buck Privates? Or that lamebrained Martin and Lewis movie with the unforgettable musical number--"The navy gets the gravy/But the army gets the beans/Beans, beans, beans..."? These films, and a hundred like them, showed us that being trained to kill people in a brutally authoritarian institution could be fun, in fact, downright hilarious. Just when it seemed that Vietnam had bombed the service comedy into oblivion, Hollywood has chosen not only to revive the genre but to add an insipidly trendy twist by making the first supposedly...
...make those under its influence irresistibly hilarious. It seems likely that great comedians could do great dope routines--Charlie Chaplin Visits Jamaica--but it is not fantastically funny simply to light up a joint. If you have always enjoyed American screen humorists, however, go see this; it rivals anything Abbott and Costello ever...
...reported that M.I.T. researchers had developed a new mass-production technique that could reduce the cost of a dose of interferon to one-twentieth of its present cost. Earlier this month G.D. Searle & Co. announced plans to build a $12 million IF plant at its research facilities in Britain. Abbott Laboratories, Warner-Lambert, Merck & Co., and a number of other companies are also gearing up for interferon production. When Biogen S.A., a Swiss firm specializing in the new recombinant DNA (gene splicing) techniques, announced in January that it had induced bacteria to produce a facsimile of human interferon, the stock...
...yard freestyle: 1. Maureen Gildea (H), 5:14.91; 2. Simone Carson (BC), 5:15.67; 3. Terri Frick (H), 5:21.38; 4. Pat Leahy (BU), 5:35.75; 5. Margot Abbott (BC), 5:40.77; 6. Jane Keith...