Word: amoeba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beard glowing in the spotlight, the white-haired director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Physiology of Behavior punctuated his speech with comments on nest-building jackdaws, the creeping amoeba, and the business world...
Today the city itself, with a population of 2,800,000, rambles through 469 sq. mi. of desert, mountain and valley. But the city is only the core of a vast, amoeba-like mass that makes up the Los Angeles metropolitan area, a 5,000-sq. mi. tract that includes Los Angeles County (pop. 7,020,000) and such neighboring cities as Long Beach and San Bernardino. Though Los Angeles proper ranks third in population among U.S. cities (after New York and Chicago), Greater Los Angeles is already the second-most-populous metropolis in the U.S., is almost sure...
...Jefferson Airplane, "pays us all this money to play at their political benefits and society parties, and then we throw out this jargon and watch them be revoked. That's kicks." The Jefferson Air plane flies on weekends at a discotheque in Fillmore Auditorium, where projectors flash quivering, amoeba-like patterns on the walls to induce the dancers "to take a 'trip' [an LSD experience] without drugs." One of the Airplane's "trip songs" is Running Around the World, an abstract number that, says Balin, celebrates the "fantastic experience of making love while under...
...look like an actress play-acting animosity instead of feeling it. As the ambitious young prof whose blueprint for success includes "plowing a few pertinent wives," George Segal exudes callow opportunism assuredly. And Broadway's Sandy Dennis slyly interprets Segal's child bride as a sickly amoeba struggling to assert herself among dragons...
...understands the brute, says Austria's celebrated Naturalist Konrad Lorenz (King Solomon's Ring, Man Meets Dog). But the brute, he hastens to add, cannot finally be understood in psychiatric terms because man is too small a measure for such things. Aggression is as old as the amoeba, and in the violent process of evolution many species have resolved the problem of violence in a way that man might profitably emulate-or hopefully avoid. In this spirited essay Naturalist Lorenz describes the experience of these species in a natural history of aggression presented as a series of scientifically...