Word: acidizing
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...Temin and Miss Tolliver have harder jobs, but they fail for many of the same reasons as the others. In the scene where Teacher comes home drunk and tries to talk to the insolent, isolated Andri, Temin and Nagin could have developed a beautiful pattern of slurred overture and acid rebuff. They merely mixed lines and frustrations. The last scene between Barblin and Andri might have built to a striking conclusion. Nagin and Miss Tolliver strove and fumbled, but without precision or notable effect...
...sensitive Christian Weisbrod, at 26, had a bright future on the East German stage. He was the youngest member of the eminent Berliner Ensemble, the theater company famed for its productions of Bertolt Brecht's acid satires. Yet Weisbrod was not happy...
Twentieth century geneticists gradually evolved the theory that whether an organism is to be microbe, mouse or man, its biochemical functions are determined by genes strung together to form chromosomes. Each gene is believed to be a submicroscopic but still "giant" molecule of a nucleic acid, usu ally deoxyribonucleic acid (DNAJ, but in some viruses ribonucleic acid (RNA) Each gene, the theory held, directly controls the cells' production of some one specific chemical-in most cases an enzyme, one of the body's countless catalysts that are essential to nearly all its functions...
...Stand-ins. To check and expand on these hypotheses, Lwoff chose to work with single-celled organisms, such as bacteria, because they have a single chromosome (whereas man has 46). As stand-ins for genes he chose viruses that infect bacteria (bacterio-phages), because their cores consist of nucleic acid. What actually happens Lwoff found, is not as simple as had been thought. The viral nucleic acid, in effect masquerading as a gene, might do one of two things after invading a bacterium: 1) stimulate the bacterial cell to produce hundreds of copies of the virus particle, and destroy itself...
AFFAIRS AT STATE, by Henry Serrano Villard. An eminent career diplomat about to retire from the corps as Ambassador to Mauretania writes an acid lament for the lost art of diplomacy. His arguments are bitter: career men are undermined by rich, gauche political appointees; the supposedly myopic State Department has almost bankrupted the prestige of the U.S. ambassador...