Word: aqueous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mysteries of life, none is more baffling than the mechanism by which impulses from the brain are transmitted along nerve fibers and eventually to muscles, so that thought is translated into action. Some research ers have concentrated on the chemical aspects of the mechanism, and, because they work with aqueous solutions, they are known in their own esoteric circle as "wets." Those who work with electrical circuitry are the "drys." Neither group has yet been able to offer a complete explanation of nerve-impulse transmission, though each seems to have dug out part of the truth...
...instead through sinuous mass movements in which the undulation of arm and body suggested forests of sea plants stirring to unseen tides. The sense of submarine fantasy was reinforced by Stage Designer Lila de Nobili's fine scenery: a castle of mist and fruitfulness, shadowy crags and waterfalls, aqueous skies streaked pink and green...
...Chemical Society, reads: "2 -(β, β-Dicyanovinyl)-3, 5-dimethyl-4-ethylpyrrole was converted by sulfuryl chloride in acetic acid at 55° to 2-(β, β-dicyanovinyl)-3-methyl-4-ethyl-5-chloromethylpyrrole [m.p. 189-192°], and thence, by condensation with 3-carbethoxy-4-methylpyrrole in hot aqueous etha-nolic hydrochloric acid to 3', 4-dimethyl-3-ethyl-4'-carbethoxy-5-(β, β-dicyanovinyl) dipyrrylmethane [m.p. 195-197°], which, with β-carbomethoxypropionyl chloride in dichloromethane in the presence of anhydrous zinc chloride, gave 3', 4-dimethyl-3-ethyl-4'-carbethoxy...
...midday sun." Ellida sports it for a time with the sailor, but at play's end she chooses a terrestrial admirer. The point seems to be that both sea and sailor represent Ellida 's escape from reality; when her vision clears, she is freed of her aqueous urges...