Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mark Ptashne, 39. In 1967 the Harvard molecular biologist detected a molecule, called a "represser," that regulates the way a gene functions, possibly a key in the study of cancer. Ptashne was majoring in philosophy at Reed College in Portland, Ore., when he became fascinated by a theory about represser molecules and switched to chemistry in his senior year. During the Viet Nam War, Ptashne was deeply involved in antiwar politics at Harvard and went to the extent of lecturing at the University of Hanoi. But he became disillusioned with leftist politics in 1976 when some radicals and others tried...
...Longest Day, The Last Battle, A Bridge Too Far), Ryan, a historian and former wartime correspondent, recounted great battles not through statistics but through narratives of personal sacrifice and drama. In A Private Battle, his last book, Ryan re-creates another kind of war: a four-year fight against cancer. Composed of tapes recorded throughout his illness, along with entries by his wife and co-editor Kathryn, Battle is as much a testimonial to the human spirit as any of his other works...
DIED. Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, 68, austere President of Mexico from 1964 to 1970, whose administration was marred by the bloody suppression of student protesters in the capital's Tlatelolco Square in 1968; of cancer; in Mexico City. Though a diehard antiCommunist, Díaz Ordaz considered himself a moderate: "I know my course is correct when, like a submarine on sonar, I pick up noise from both the left and the right." Noise from the left grew deafening in protest to the Tlatelolco massacre, in which some say hundreds of students were slain (official death toll...
DIED. Minnie Riperton, 30, pop singer and songwriter, best known for the international hit Lovin' You (1975); of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...long history of the artist as freak and invalid: Plato's ideas of divine mania; Philoctetes, the archer of Greek mythology, whose festering wounds made him unfit company; 19th century Romanticism with its conspicuous consumptives; more recently, Susan Sontag's musing on the literary uses of cancer in Illness as Metaphor...