Word: cellular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Fairbanks, the Army has laid down 20 runway sections insulated from the permafrost by layers of cellular concrete, asphalt, foam glass, gravel, moss and spruce boughs. Under each runway are thermometers to measure heat penetration. For buildings, the trick is to rest the walls on thick mats of insulating material, or allow cold air to circulate freely under heated floors. Roads will be insulated, too, to keep foundations frozen under thundering tanks and trucks...
Astromentalists were also delighted to learn that F. W. was only 52 years old and therefore practically in his bassinet. For no Astromentalist went into "voluntary retirement" (the new name for death) before he was 200. "Retirement" was sheer pleasure, anyway; cellular scientists simply reduced the living body, by rapid stages, first from maturity to infancy, then back into a cozy, synthetic womb (complete with umbilical cord), and finally to the stage where the heart of the "retiring" fetus ceased to beat...
Last week a show of his singular, science-inspired visualizations enlivened Manhattan's super-surrealistic Art-of-this-Century gallery. Executed in brilliant, Van Gogh-like splashes of color, they show objects (mostly humans) as they might look if broken down to their cellular essentials. Likewise, they show Painter Paalen's idea of "pure spatial tensions" and "inner tensions of landscapes" (basi cally whorls and spirals). The net result: "plastic cosmogony" - which means, he says, "no longer a symbolization or interpretation but, through the specific means of art, a direct visualization of the forces which move our mind...
Life does not revolve around the individual, said Jules Romains. His importance is rather his place in, and movement through, the cellular structure of contemporary society. Thus the story of Jerphanion coming to Paris was not his individual career, but his being, as one of the units, in the entity known as Paris, which was greater than the sum of its citizens...
...body cannot be healthy, no matter how active its cells, if the organization and functions of the whole are defective. And organization and function depend on many things beyond cellular health: the Government's economic and political policies, the people's own disposition towards spending and taxation, the nation's trade relations with the rest of the world...