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Provirus & Gene. Yet Dr. Parry does not knock the virus theory. Rather he speculates that the submicroscopic particle apparently involved may act, in effect, as both gene and virus, transmitting the disease by the mechanisms of heredity and later spreading to attack muscles. It would thus be akin to a "provirus" found in some plants and flies. If this is so, it will be the first instance of such a provirus among higher animals. A provirus could be passed from one sheep to another by inoculation...
...humorist actually most closely akin to Jean Kerr, at her best, is Robert Benchley. As writers, they share the same gently shrugging quality that utterly preludes malice, the same preoccupation with the bizarre edges of the commonplace, the same disarming penchant for self-deprecation, as when the ample Mrs. Kerr compares herself to "a large bran muffin" or Benchley calls himself "Sweet Old Bob, or sometimes just the initials...
...major theme, uniting Brecht's pre-Marxist plays with his later work. Of In the Swamp, for instance, the author tells us he is presenting a great struggle between two men ... but he offers hardly any fighting at all. The mutual preoccupation of Shlink and Garga seems far more akin to love than hate, and when, years later, Brecht writes that he sees in this play naive intimations of class struggle, he is only superimposing political analysis upon his non-Marxist work. Similarly in A Man's a Man (pre-Marxist) a simple porter, Galy Gay, is literally transformed...
Running the house, once a good enough home but now much the worse for bomb damage, is Dan, an ex-navyman who is good at repairs, rapacious for rent money, and not above sharp practices akin to stealing. He is dull, sexually primitive and demanding, but he has just the wife to understand and cope with him. Flo had the great good luck to have an Italian grandmother. She cooks overpowering meals, handles her brutish husband with a nice Mediterranean mixture of tears, seeming ignorance and docility. She is greedy and vulgar, and yet so full of the juices...
House Speaker Sam Rayburn found himself last week facing a dilemma somewhat akin to that of a gold prospector who spots a huge nugget on the far side of a chasm perhaps too wide to jump across. Splendid would be the reward if he leaped and made it; but then how painful the penalty if he missed. Understandably, Rayburn hesitated at the brink...