Word: berge
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...Italian and German romantic traditions. It would also include Debussy's Petteas et Melisande, the French composer's 1902 masterpiece of Gallic allusion and understatement; Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes, the most important work to enter the international repertory since World War II; and Alban Berg's twin monuments - Wozzeck, the seminal opera of our time, and Lulu, the apotheosis of the twelve-tone system...
...While Berg and his colleagues were agonizing about the possible dangers posed by their experiments, two other scientists were planning an even more dramatic display of gene splicing. One of them was an intense biochemist named Stanley Cohen, 46, whose lab was only two floors below Berg's own quarters at the Stanford Medical Center research building. The other was Boyer, who worked just an hour's drive away at the University of California at San Francisco. Their partnership had emerged accidentally. In November 1972, after a long day of listening to scientific papers at a conference in Hawaii, they...
...Like Berg, Cohen wanted to insert new genes artificially into bacteria. But where Berg resorted to a virus as his transport system, Cohen opted for plasmids, which he had been studying in his lab. As he listened to Boyer's description of his work that night in Waikiki, however, Cohen realized that there might be a short cut. Boyer and his associates had found a so-called restriction enzyme that cuts DNA precisely at predetermined points, and performs this surgery in an especially helpful way: at each end of the severed, twin-stranded molecule, it leaves an extra...
...world would be mirrored. There is everything in common between the relentless detail in which the boredom and pointlessness of Emma Bovary's life was built up, and the minutely articulated jumble of reflections behind the blank-faced nana in Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882. Both works, in a sense, point forward to the "objective," molecular constellations of dabbed light from which Seurat assembled his figures on the speckled lawn of the Grande Jatte. If the origins of one aspect of the avant-garde lie with Courbet, those of the other...
...Berg and Stravinsky: Violin Concertos (Deutsche Grammophon). Itzhak Perlman enhances two demanding works...